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ibrowse

ibrowse is an HTTP client written in Erlang.

Current version : 4.0.0

Startup

application:start(ibrowse).

OR

ibrowse:start().

Shutdown

application:stop(ibrowse).

OR

ibrowse:stop().

Configuration

ibrowse on start up reads configuration from a file called ibrowse.conf which should be located in $ROOTDIR/lib/ibrowse-VSN/priv/. The following configuration parameters are supported.

Name	Data type	Default value	Description
download_dir	string()	The current working directory for the erlang node	The directory within which to save downloaded files.
max_headers_size	integer()	infinity	The maximum size of response headers which ibrowse should accept.
inactivity_timeout	integer() - milliseconds	infinity	The amount of time a connection is kept alive while waiting for some activity to happen. If requests are currently in progress, and no data is received on the socket for this period of time, ibrowse will fail all requests pipelined on this connection and return appropriate errors back to the client processes.
{options,Host,Port}	[ibrowse_option(),...]	[]	Options controlling ibrowse behaviour when communication with a specific web server. `ibrowse_option()` is documented in the table below.
{options,global}	[ibrowse_option(),...]	[]	Options controlling ibrowse behaviour when communication with web servers where specific options haven't been defined.

ibrowse_option()

Name	Data type	Description
max_sessions	integer()	The maximum number of connections to open towards the specified web server.
max_pipeline_size	integer()	The maximum number of requests to pipeline on a single connection towards the specified web server.

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