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Cowboy
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Cowboy is a small, fast and modular HTTP server written in Erlang.
Goals
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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.
Sponsors
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The project is currently sponsored by
[Sameroom](https://sameroom.io).
The original SPDY implementation was sponsored by
[LeoFS Cloud Storage](http://leo-project.net/leofs/).
It has since been superseded by HTTP/2.
Online documentation
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* [User guide](http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/2.0/guide)
* [Function reference](http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/2.0/manual)
Offline documentation
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* While still online, run `make docs`
* 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 Markdown available in `doc/markdown/`
* Examples available in `examples/`
Getting help
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* Official IRC Channel: #ninenines on irc.freenode.net
* [Mailing Lists](http://lists.ninenines.eu)
* [Commercial Support](http://ninenines.eu/support)
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