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) Multipart --------- * [Introduction to multipart](multipart_intro.md) * [Multipart requests](multipart_req.md) Static files ------------ * [Static handler](static_handlers.md) REST ---- * [REST principles](rest_principles.md) * [Handling REST requests](rest_handlers.md) * [REST flowcharts](rest_flowcharts.md) * [Designing a resource handler](resource_design.md) Websocket --------- * [The Websocket protocol](ws_protocol.md) * [Handling Websocket connections](ws_handlers.md) Server push ----------- * [Loop handlers](loop_handlers.md) Pluggable interface ------------------- * [Middlewares](middlewares.md) * [Protocol upgrades](upgrade_protocol.md) * [Hooks](hooks.md) Internals --------- * [Architecture](architecture.md) * [Dealing with broken clients](broken_clients.md)