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<h1 class="lined-header"><span>cowboy_protocol(3)</span></h1>

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<h2 id="_name">Name</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>cowboy_protocol - HTTP protocol</p></div>
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<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_description">Description</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="paragraph"><p>The <code>cowboy_protocol</code> module implements HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0
as a Ranch protocol.</p></div>
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<div class="sect1">
<h2 id="_types">Types</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
<div class="sect2">
<h3 id="_opts_option">opts() = [Option]</h3>
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<pre><tt><span style="color: #009900">Option</span> <span style="color: #990000">=</span> {<span style="color: #FF6600">compress</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">boolean</span></span>()}
        | {<span style="color: #FF6600">env</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">cowboy_middleware:env</span></span>()}
        | {<span style="color: #FF6600">max_empty_lines</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">non_neg_integer</span></span>()}
        | {<span style="color: #FF6600">max_header_name_length</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">non_neg_integer</span></span>()}
        | {<span style="color: #FF6600">max_header_value_length</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">non_neg_integer</span></span>()}
        | {<span style="color: #FF6600">max_headers</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">non_neg_integer</span></span>()}
        | {<span style="color: #FF6600">max_keepalive</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">non_neg_integer</span></span>()}
        | {<span style="color: #FF6600">max_request_line_length</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">non_neg_integer</span></span>()}
        | {<span style="color: #FF6600">middlewares</span>, [<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">module</span></span>()]}
        | {<span style="color: #FF6600">onresponse</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">cowboy:onresponse_fun</span></span>()}
        | {<span style="color: #FF6600">timeout</span>, <span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="color: #000000">timeout</span></span>()}</tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Configuration for the HTTP protocol handler.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>This configuration is passed to Cowboy when starting listeners
using <code>cowboy:start_http/4</code> or <code>cowboy:start_https/4</code> functions.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>It can be updated without restarting listeners using the
Ranch functions <code>ranch:get_protocol_options/1</code> and
<code>ranch:set_protocol_options/2</code>.</p></div>
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<h3 id="_option_descriptions">Option descriptions</h3>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The default value is given next to the option name.</p></div>
<div class="dlist"><dl>
<dt class="hdlist1">
compress (false)
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        When enabled, Cowboy will attempt to compress the response body.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
env ([{listener, Ref}])
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        Initial middleware environment.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
max_empty_lines (5)
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        Maximum number of empty lines before a request.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
max_header_name_length (64)
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        Maximum length of header names.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
max_header_value_length (4096)
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        Maximum length of header values.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
max_headers (100)
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        Maximum number of headers allowed per request.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
max_keepalive (100)
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        Maximum number of requests allowed per connection.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
max_request_line_length (4096)
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        Maximum length of the request line.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
middlewares ([cowboy_router, cowboy_handler])
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        List of middlewares to execute for every requests.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
onresponse (undefined)
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        Fun called every time a response is sent.
</p>
</dd>
<dt class="hdlist1">
timeout (5000)
</dt>
<dd>
<p>
        Time in ms with no requests before Cowboy closes the connection.
</p>
</dd>
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