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Cowboy User Guide

The Cowboy User Guide explores the modern Web and how to make best use of Cowboy for writing powerful web applications.

Introducing Cowboy

• Introduction
• The modern Web
• Erlang and the Web
• Erlang for beginners
• Getting started

HTTP

• The life of a request
• Routing
• Handling plain HTTP requests
• The Req object
• Reading the request body
• Sending a response
• Using cookies

Static files

• Static handlers
• Distributed CDN solutions

REST

• REST principles
• Media types explained
• HTTP caching
• Handling REST requests
• HEAD/GET requests flowchart
• POST/PUT/PATCH requests flowchart
• DELETE requests flowchart
• OPTIONS requests flowchart
• Designing a REST API

Multipart

• Understanding multipart
• Multipart requests
• Multipart responses

Server push technologies

• Push technologies
• Using loop handlers for server push
• CORS

Using Websocket

• The Websocket protocol
• Handling Websocket connections

Advanced HTTP

• Authentication
• Sessions

Advanced Cowboy usage

• Optimization guide
• Hooks
• Middlewares
• Access and error logs
• Handling broken clients
• HTTP header names
• HTTP/1.1 streaming not chunked

Old guide misc

This section will be removed as content is moved into other chapters.

• Handlers
• Internals
• Resources