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Cowboy User Guide
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The Cowboy User Guide explores the modern Web and how to make
best use of Cowboy for writing powerful web applications.
Introducing Cowboy
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* [Introduction](introduction.md)
* [The modern Web](modern_web.md)
* [Erlang and the Web](erlang_web.md)
* [Erlang for beginners](erlang_beginners.md)
* [Getting started](getting_started.md)
HTTP
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* [The life of a request](http_req_life.md)
* [Routing](routing.md)
* [Handling plain HTTP requests](http_handlers.md)
* [The Req object](req.md)
* [Reading the request body](req_body.md)
* [Sending a response](resp.md)
* [Using cookies](cookies.md)
Static files
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* [Static handler](static_handlers.md)
* Distributed CDN solutions
* Efficiently serving files
REST
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* REST principles
* Media types explained
* HTTP caching
* [Handling REST requests](rest_handlers.md)
* HEAD/GET requests flowchart
* POST/PUT/PATCH requests flowchart
* DELETE requests flowchart
* OPTIONS requests flowchart
* Designing a REST API
Multipart
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* Understanding multipart
* Multipart requests
* Multipart responses
Server push technologies
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* Push technologies
* [Using loop handlers for server push](loop_handlers.md)
* CORS
Using Websocket
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* The Websocket protocol
* [Handling Websocket connections](ws_handlers.md)
Advanced HTTP
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* Authentication
* Sessions
Advanced Cowboy usage
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* Optimization guide
* [Hooks](hooks.md)
* [Middlewares](middlewares.md)
* Access and error logs
* Handling broken clients
* HTTP header names
* HTTP/1.1 streaming not chunked
Old guide misc
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This section will be removed as content is moved into other chapters.
* [Handlers](handlers.md)
* [Internals](internals.md)
* [Resources](resources.md)
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