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Small, fast, modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP.
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This reduces the number of times we need to ask for more packets,
and as a result we get a fairly large boost in performance,
especially with HTTP/1.1.

Unfortunately this makes Cowboy require at least Erlang/OTP 21.3+
because the ssl application did not have active,N. For simplicity
the version required will be Erlang/OTP 22+.

In addition this change improves hibernate handling in
cowboy_websocket. Hibernate will now work for HTTP/2 transport
as well, and stray or unrelated messages will no longer cancel
hibernate (the process will handle the message and go back into
hibernation).

Thanks go to Stressgrid for benchmarking an early version of this
commit: https://stressgrid.com/blog/cowboy_performance_part_2/
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examples Document the commands based Websocket interface 2019-10-06 16:51:27 +02:00
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= Cowboy

Cowboy is a small, fast and modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP.

== Goals

Cowboy aims to provide a *complete* HTTP stack in a *small* code base.
It is optimized for *low latency* and *low memory usage*, in part
because it uses *binary strings*.

Cowboy provides *routing* capabilities, selectively dispatching requests
to handlers written in Erlang.

Because it uses Ranch for managing connections, Cowboy can easily be
*embedded* in any other application.

Cowboy is *clean* and *well tested* Erlang code.

== Online documentation

* https://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/2.6/guide[User guide]
* https://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/2.6/manual[Function reference]

== Offline documentation

* While still online, run `make docs`
* User guide available in `doc/` in PDF and HTML formats
* Function reference man pages available in `doc/man3/` and `doc/man7/`
* Run `make install-docs` to install man pages on your system
* Full documentation in Asciidoc available in `doc/src/`
* Examples available in `examples/`

== Getting help

* Official IRC Channel: #ninenines on irc.freenode.net
* https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy/issues[Issues tracker]
* https://ninenines.eu/services[Commercial Support]
* https://github.com/sponsors/essen[Sponsor me!]