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Small, fast, modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP.
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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. |
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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 * https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy/issues[Issues tracker] * https://ninenines.eu/services[Commercial Support] * https://github.com/sponsors/essen[Sponsor me!]