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authorLoïc Hoguin <[email protected]>2017-02-18 18:26:20 +0100
committerLoïc Hoguin <[email protected]>2017-02-18 18:26:20 +0100
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Allow passing options to sub protocols
Before this commit we had an issue where configuring a Websocket connection was simply not possible without doing magic, adding callbacks or extra return values. The init/2 function only allowed setting hibernate and timeout options. After this commit, when switching to a different type of handler you can either return {module, Req, State} or {module, Req, State, Opts} where Opts is any value (as far as the sub protocol interface is concerned) and is ultimately checked by the custom handlers. A large protocol like Websocket would accept only a map there, with many different options, while a small interface like loop handlers would allow passing hibernate and nothing else. For Websocket, hibernate must be set from the websocket_init/1 callback, because init/2 executes in a separate process. Sub protocols now have two callbacks: one with the Opts value, one without. The loop handler code was largely reworked and simplified. It does not need to manage a timeout or read from the socket anymore, it's the job of the protocol code. A lot of unnecessary stuff was therefore removed. Websocket compression must now be enabled from the handler options instead of per listener. This means that a project can have two separate Websocket handlers with different options. Compression is still disabled by default, and the idle_timeout value was changed from inifnity to 60000 (60 seconds), as that's safer and is also a good value for mobile devices.
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diff --git a/src/cowboy_http.erl b/src/cowboy_http.erl
index 8615c85..ac0d915 100644
--- a/src/cowboy_http.erl
+++ b/src/cowboy_http.erl
@@ -136,11 +136,10 @@ init(Parent, Ref, Socket, Transport, Opts) ->
%% Timeouts:
%% - waiting for new request (if no stream is currently running)
%% -> request_timeout: for whole request/headers, set at init/when we set ps_request_line{} state
-%% - waiting for body (if a stream requested the body to be read)
-%% -> read_body_timeout: amount of time we wait without receiving any data when reading the body
+%% - waiting for new request, or body (when a stream is currently running)
+%% -> idle_timeout: amount of time we wait without receiving any data
%% - if we skip the body, skip only for a specific duration
%% -> skip_body_timeout: also have a skip_body_length
-%% - none if we have a stream running and it didn't request the body to be read
%% - global
%% -> inactivity_timeout: max time to wait without anything happening before giving up