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@@ -3,58 +3,39 @@ ROADMAP This document explains in as much details as possible the 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. +server. It is intended to be exhaustive but some elements +might still be missing. - * Add and improve examples +All the following items must be done before Cowboy 1.0 is +released. - * Improve user guide + * Parse support for all standard HTTP/1.1 headers - We need feedback to improve the guide. + * Support for multipart requests and responses - * Add and improve tests + * Convenience API for extracting query string and body + information, similar to PHP's $_GET, $_POST and $_FILES - Amongst the areas less tested there is protocol upgrades - and the REST handler. + * Add Range support to REST - While eunit and ct tests are fine, some parts of the - code could benefit from PropEr tests. - - * Continuous performance testing - - Initially dubbed the Horse project, Cowboy could benefit - from a continuous performance testing tool that would - allow us to easily compare the impact of the changes we - are introducing, similar to what the Phoronix test suite - allows. - - Depending on the test it may be interesting to compare - Cowboy to other servers and eventually take ideas from - the servers that outperform Cowboy for the task being tested. - - * Full HTTP/1.1 support - - * Improved 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. + * SPDY support - * Continue improving the REST API + We are only interested in supporting existing + implementations, not the full protocol, as this + protocol has been abandoned in favor of HTTP/2.0 - * SPDY support + * Complete the user guide -The following items pertain to Ranch. +The following items pertain to Ranch, but are equally important. * Resizing the acceptor pool We should be able to add more acceptors to a pool but also - to remove some of them as needed. + to remove some of them as needed * 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 solution, adding an API function that returns whether - a connection is secure would fix that issue. + a connection is secure would fix that issue |