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2025-02-17Update Cowboy version in user guideHEAD2.13.0masterLoïc Hoguin
2025-02-17Remove copyright years from all files except LICENSELoïc Hoguin
2025-02-17Relax Cowlib version requirement for HexLoïc Hoguin
2025-02-17Cowboy 2.13.0Loïc Hoguin
2025-02-17Use explicit Ranch and Cowlib versionsLoïc Hoguin
2025-02-11Use the new json module for the file_server exampleLoïc Hoguin
2025-02-11Relax Ranch version requirement for HexLoïc Hoguin
It is now specified as >= 1.8.0 and < 3.0.0 since Cowboy supports both Ranch 1.8.x and 2.x.
2025-02-11Improve the set_resp_headers_list testLoïc Hoguin
2025-02-11Add support for lists in cowboy_req:set_resp_headersLoïc Hoguin
This is meant to be used with clients such as Gun to simplify proxying and similar operations. The set-cookie header must not be set this way so there is still some extra processing to be done to fully translate a Gun response into a Cowboy response.
2025-02-10cowboy_rest: Always set the Allow headerLoïc Hoguin
Not just on 405 responses or OPTIONS requests.
2025-02-10Remove unnecessary indirection in cowboy_restLoïc Hoguin
2025-02-10Correct a ct_helper:ignore callLoïc Hoguin
2025-02-10Run http_SUITE:graceful_shutdown_listener separatelyLoïc Hoguin
To avoid intermittent errors that are more likely as more tests are calling cowboy:stop_listener.
2025-02-10Provide better control over which HTTP protocols are enabledLoïc Hoguin
Over cleartext TCP the `protocols` option lists the enabled protocols. The default is to allow both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2. Over TLS the default protocol to use when ALPN is not used can now be configured via the `alpn_default_protocol` option. Performing an HTTP/1.1 upgrade to HTTP/2 over TLS is now rejected with an error as connecting to HTTP/2 over TLS requires the use of ALPN (or that HTTP/2 be the default when connecting over TLS).
2025-02-10Clarify that reverse/format_error constraint ops are experimentalLoïc Hoguin
2025-02-09Detect invalid content_types_provided return values earlierLoïc Hoguin
Before this change invalid return values would be detected via unhelpful error messages such as [1] and the closing of the connection. [1] Bad value on output port 'tcp_inet'
2025-02-08Properly handle external exits of request processesLoïc Hoguin
Because the exit reason doesn't include the stacktrace they were ignored. Now they are properly handled. The error message was changed slightly to accomodate.
2025-02-07Deprecate the inactivity_timeout optionsLoïc Hoguin
When idle_timeout is configured we do not need a separate timer to detect inactivity. Disabling idle_timeout is not recommended and should not be necessary.
2025-02-07Use maps:fold for cowboy_http's set_options for code clarityLoïc Hoguin
2025-02-07Add hibernate option to cowboy_http and cowboy_http2Loïc Hoguin
When enabled the connection process will automatically hibernate. Because hibernation triggers GC, this can be used as a way to keep memory usage lower, at the cost of performance.
2025-02-06Fix unused variable warningLoïc Hoguin
2025-02-06Add an http_perf test uploading a 10GB bodyLoïc Hoguin
2025-02-06Fix cowboy_req:filter_cookies missing valid cookiesMirjam Friesen
When 3 or more cookies were sent the extra cookies were not found because the binary:split on ";" stopped at the first occurrence.
2025-02-06Fix request_timeout triggering when a request was in the bufferLoïc Hoguin
The problem was that when a request immediately following another request with a large enough body, the data for the new request (including headers) would be buffered waiting for more data, instead of being processed immediately. If no more data came in on the socket the request_timeout would eventually trigger. Now the buffer is processed immediately.
2025-02-05Lower the lower dynamic buffer value to 1024Loïc Hoguin
There's not a big performance difference between 8192 and 1024 so let's use less memory at the start of the connection.
2025-02-05HTTP/1: Ensure active mode is enabled for the next streamLoïc Hoguin
In rare cases it was possible for active mode to be disabled when there were no streams pipelined. This resulted in the dropping of the connection due to timeouts as no data could be received. We now enable active mode when necessary even if there are no streams pipelined. This was found while benchmarking and I have not been able to extract a test case.
2025-02-05Don't run perf suites by defaultLoïc Hoguin
2025-02-05Implement dynamic socket buffer sizesLoïc Hoguin
Cowboy will set the socket's buffer size dynamically to better fit the current workload. When the incoming data is small, a low buffer size reduces the memory footprint and improves responsiveness and therefore performance. When the incoming data is large, such as large HTTP request bodies, a larger buffer size helps us avoid doing too many binary appends and related allocations. Setting a large buffer size for all use cases is sub-optimal because allocating more than needed necessarily results in a performance hit (not just increased memory usage). By default Cowboy starts with a buffer size of 8192 bytes. It then doubles or halves the buffer size depending on the size of the data it receives from the socket. It stops decreasing at 8192 and increasing at 131072 by default. To keep track of the size of the incoming data Cowboy maintains a moving average. It allows Cowboy to avoid changing the buffer too often but still react quickly when necessary. Cowboy will increase the buffer size when the moving average is above 90% of the current buffer size, and decrease when the moving average is below 40% of the current buffer size. The current buffer size and moving average are propagated when switching protocols. The dynamic buffer is implemented in HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/1 Websocket. HTTP/2 Websocket has it disabled because it doesn't interact directly with the socket; in that case it is HTTP/2 that has a dynamic buffer. The dynamic buffer provides a very large performance improvement in many scenarios, at minimal cost for others. Because it largely depend on the underlying protocol the improvements are no all equal. TLS and compression also impact the results. The improvement when reading a large request body, with the requests repeated in a fast loop are: * HTTP: 6x to 20x faster * HTTPS: 2x to 6x faster * H2: 4x to 5x faster * H2C: 20x to 40x faster I am not sure why H2C's performance was so bad, especially compared to H2, when using default buffer sizes. Dynamic buffers make H2C a lot more viable with default settings. The performance impact on "hello world" type requests is minimal, it goes from -5% to +5% roughly. Websocket improvements vary again depending on the protocol, but also depending on whether compression is enabled: * HTTP echo: roughly 2x faster * HTTP send: roughly 4x faster * H2C echo: roughly 2x faster * H2C send: 3x to 4x faster In the echo test we reply back, and Gun doesn't have the dynamic buffer optimisation, so that probably explains the x2 difference. With compression however there isn't much improvement. The results are roughly within -10% to +10% of each other. Zlib compression seems to be a bottleneck, or at least to modify the performance profile to such an extent that the size of the buffer does not matter. This happens to randomly generated binary data as well so it is probably not caused by the test data.
2025-01-24Cancel timers asyncDavid Ansari
Where it wasn't already async. To slightly improve performance.
2025-01-24Add initial http_perf_SUITELoïc Hoguin
2025-01-23Fix supported OTP version in user guideLoïc Hoguin
2025-01-23Fix a few underspec'd types in cowboy_staticMarko Mindek
2025-01-23Correcting TransOpts in send_timeout_close testsBjörn Svensson
2025-01-23Add WS compression test where only server sets client_max_window_bitsJose M Perez
When the server has a non-default value configured and the client doesn't send one the extension negotiation should fail.
2025-01-22Websocket: Also apply max_frame_size limit to decompressed dataLoïc Hoguin
Before this commit frames could "cheat" by compressing data below the limit which would get expanded above the limit. Now Cowboy will stop decompressing data when the limit is reached.
2025-01-22Use cow_deflate in cowboy_decompress_hLoïc Hoguin
The function inflate/3 was moved there to make it usable from within Cowlib itself.
2025-01-22Add compressed Websocket to ws_perf_SUITELoïc Hoguin
2025-01-16Websocket: Allow setting the max_frame_size option dynamicallyLoïc Hoguin
This can be used to limit the maximum frame size before some authentication or other validation is completed.
2025-01-15Switch to running autobahntestsuite via DockerLoïc Hoguin
2025-01-15Avoid resetting HTTP/2 idle_timeout timer too oftenLoïc Hoguin
Following the same strategy as Websocket described in commit cbed21c383e4cebb7df5a0a8b81f18c1738bef3e Gains are comparable as far as Websocket over HTTP/2 is concerned.
2025-01-15Avoid resetting Websocket idle_timeout timer too oftenLoïc Hoguin
`perf` has shown that Cowboy spends a lot of time cancelling and starting this timer. Instead of resetting for every data received, we now only reset a field in the state. Before it was working like this: - start idle timeout timer - on trigger, close the connection - on data, cancel and start again Now it's working like this: - start idle timeout timer for a tenth of its duration, with tick number = 0 - on trigger, if tick number != 10 - start the timer again, again for a tenth of its duration - increment tick number - on trigger, if tick number = 10 - close the connection - on data, set tick number to 0
2025-01-15Add ws_perf_SUITE to measure Websocket performanceLoïc Hoguin
It benchmarks binary, ascii, mixed and japanese data using Websocket and Websocket over HTTP/2. HTTP/2 options get set to ensure that performance is better than the default HTTP/2 options. It switches to Gun and Ranch branches that include fixes that are required for tests to complete successfully.
2024-11-27Update Discord link to a permanent inviteLoïc Hoguin
2024-11-15Update CONTRIBUTING.asciidocLoïc Hoguin
2024-11-15Add Discord server to READMELoïc Hoguin
2024-11-08CI: Remove unneeded envLoïc Hoguin
2024-11-08CI: Add concurrency rulesLoïc Hoguin
2024-11-08CI: Simplify testing for examplesLoïc Hoguin
Since we only test them on Ubuntu we can use setup-beam to install Erlang/OTP and avoid waiting for all other checks to complete. Also make the "delete master" job conditional rather than only its step.
2024-11-07CI: Fix master build deletionLoïc Hoguin
Some things likely changed and made it not work anymore. Also seems that the macOS runner is now ARM64.
2024-11-07Fix markdown example for OTP-27Loïc Hoguin