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Cowmachine

This documentation is adapted from the webmachine documentation to reflect the differences with Cowmachine

Cowmachine is a webmachine implementation for Cowboy and used by Zotonic.

Overview

Cowmachine is an application that adds HTTP semantic awareness on top of the HTTP web server and protocol handler Cowboy.

Cowmachine let’s you implement controllers by implementing straight forward callback functions. This frees yourself from the details of the HTTP protocol.

Getting Started

• Overview

Development Resources

• Using Cowmachine
• Controller Functions
• Request Data API
• Streamed Body

Diving Deeper

• Mechanics
• HTTP Flow Diagram
• Referential Transparency and Application State