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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ list of planned changes and work to be done on the Cowboy server. It is non-exhaustive and subject to change. Items are not ordered. -* Write more, better examples. + * Write more, better examples. The first step would be to port misultin's examples to Cowboy. Then these examples could be completed with @@ -20,12 +20,12 @@ are not ordered. Examples should be commented. They may or may not be used for writing the user guides. -* Write user guides. + * Write user guides. We currently have good API documentation, but no step by step user guides. -* Write more, better tests. + * Write more, better tests. Amongst the areas less tested there is protocol upgrades and the REST handler. @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ are not ordered. While eunit and ct tests are fine, some parts of the code could benefit from PropEr tests. -* Continuous performance testing. + * Continuous performance testing. Initially dubbed the Horse project, Cowboy could benefit from a continuous performance testing tool that would @@ -49,37 +49,37 @@ are not ordered. Cowboy to other servers and eventually take ideas from the servers that outperform Cowboy for the task being tested. -* Improve HTTP/1.0 support. + * Improve HTTP/1.0 support. Most of the work on Cowboy has been done with HTTP/1.1 in mind. But there is still a need for HTTP/1.0 code in Cowboy. The server code should be reviewed and tested to ensure compatibility with remaining HTTP/1.0 products. -* Complete the work on Websockets. + * Complete the work on Websockets. Now that the Autobahn test suite is available (make inttests), we have a definite way to know whether Cowboy's implementation of Websockets is right. The work can thus be completed. The remaining task is proper UTF8 handling. -* SPDY support. + * SPDY support. While SPDY probably won't be added directly to Cowboy, work has been started on making Cowboy use SPDY. -* Transport upgrades. + * Transport upgrades. Some protocols allow an upgrade from TCP to SSL without closing the connection. This is currently not possible through the Cowboy API. -* Resizing the acceptor pool. + * Resizing the acceptor pool. We should be able to add more acceptors to a pool but also to remove some of them as needed. -* Simplified dispatch list. + * Simplified dispatch list. For convenience purposes, the dispatch list should allow lists instead of binaries. The lists can be converted to @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ are not ordered. There has also been discussion on allowing the dispatch list to be hierarchical. -* Add Transport:secure/0. + * Add Transport:secure/0. Currently Cowboy checks if a connection is secure by checking if its name is 'ssl'. This isn't a very modular |