Cowboy User Guide ================= The Cowboy User Guide explores the modern Web and how to make best use of Cowboy for writing powerful web applications. Introducing Cowboy ------------------ * [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 ---- * [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 ------------ * [Static handler](static_handlers.md) * Distributed CDN solutions * Efficiently serving files REST ---- * 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 --------- * Understanding multipart * Multipart requests * Multipart responses Server push technologies ------------------------ * Push technologies * [Using loop handlers for server push](loop_handlers.md) * CORS Using Websocket --------------- * The Websocket protocol * [Handling Websocket connections](ws_handlers.md) Advanced HTTP ------------- * Authentication * Sessions Advanced Cowboy usage --------------------- * 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 -------------- This section will be removed as content is moved into other chapters. * [Handlers](handlers.md) * [Internals](internals.md) * [Resources](resources.md)