Cowboy User Guide

Rationale

• The modern Web
• Erlang and the Web

Introduction

• Introduction
• Getting started
• Flow diagram

Configuration

• Listeners
• Routing
• Constraints

Handlers

• Handlers
• Loop handlers
• Static files

Request and response

• Request details
• Reading the request body
• Sending a response
• Using cookies
• Multipart

REST

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

Websocket

• The Websocket protocol
• Websocket handlers

Advanced

• Streams
• Middlewares

Additional information

• Migrating from Cowboy 1.0 to 2.0
• HTTP and other specifications