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
• The modern Web
• Erlang and the Web
• Erlang for beginners
• Getting started

HTTP

• The life of a request
• Routing
• Handling plain HTTP requests
• The Req object
• Reading the request body
• Sending a response
• Using cookies

Multipart

• Introduction to multipart
• Multipart requests

Static files

• Static handler

REST

• REST principles
• Handling REST requests
• REST flowcharts
• Designing a resource handler

Websocket

• The Websocket protocol
• Handling Websocket connections

Server push

• Loop handlers

Pluggable interface

• Middlewares
• Protocol upgrades
• Hooks

Internals

• Architecture
• Dealing with broken clients