This includes Websocket over HTTP/3.
Since quicer, which provides the QUIC implementation,
is a NIF, Cowboy cannot depend directly on it. In order
to enable QUIC and HTTP/3, users have to set the
COWBOY_QUICER environment variable:
export COWBOY_QUICER=1
In order to run the test suites, the same must be done
for Gun:
export GUN_QUICER=1
HTTP/3 support is currently not available on Windows
due to compilation issues of quicer which have yet to
be looked at or resolved.
HTTP/3 support is also unavailable on the upcoming
OTP-27 due to compilation errors in quicer dependencies.
Once resolved HTTP/3 should work on OTP-27.
Because of how QUIC currently works, it's possible
that streams that get reset after sending a response
do not receive that response. The test suite was
modified to accomodate for that. A future extension
to QUIC will allow us to gracefully reset streams.
This also updates Erlang.mk.
The read buffer was changed into an iovec to avoid doing
too many binary concatenations and allocations.
Decompression happens transparently: when decoding gzip,
the content-encoding header is removed (we only decode
when "gzip" is the only encoding so nothing remains).
We always add a content_decoded key to the Req object.
This key contains a list of codings that were decoded,
in the reverse order in which they were. Currently it
can only be empty or contain <<"gzip">> but future
improvements or user handlers may see it contain more
values.
The option to disable decompression was renamed to
decompress_enabled and defaults to true.
It is no longer possible to enable/disable decompression
in the middle of reading the body: this ensures that the
data we pass forward is always valid.
Various smaller improvements were made to the code,
tests and manual pages.