ninenines/cowboy

Cowboy is an Erlang-based HTTP server that provides a comprehensive framework for building web applications and services. It supports modern protocols including HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, and WebTransport, while also offering built-in capabilities for WebSocket communication and Server-Sent Events. The system includes features for automatic response compression, file serving, and middleware-based request processing, all supported by a robust test suite and extensive documentation.

This period focused on enhancing the HTTP/2 protocol support and introducing automatic response body compression via a new stream handler. The project also expanded its example suite to demonstrate chunked transfer encoding, POST echo services, and secure HTTP/2 servers, while simultaneously modernizing the build system and documentation infrastructure.

7 changes

This period focused on expanding the project's example suite with new demonstrations for WebSocket, Server-Sent Events, and Markdown middleware. Several existing examples were refactored into standalone releases using relx, improving their buildability and self-containment.

6 changes

This period focused on expanding Cowboy's protocol support by adding HTTP/3 and WebTransport capabilities, alongside new stream handlers for compression and metrics. The team also modernized the documentation infrastructure by converting guides to Asciidoc and added new examples for file serving and multipart uploads.

7 changes

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