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@@ -4,16 +4,16 @@ Overview
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GCDWebServer is a lightweight GCD based HTTP 1.1 server designed to be embedded in Mac & iOS apps. It was written from scratch with the following goals in mind:
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* Easy to use and understand architecture with only 4 core classes: server, connection, request and response
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* Well designed API for easy integration and customization
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-* Entirely built with an event-driven design using [Grand Central Dispatch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch) for maximum performance and concurrency
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+* Entirely built with an event-driven design using [Grand Central Dispatch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch) for maximal performance and concurrency
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* No dependencies on third-party source code
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* Available under a friendly [New BSD License](LICENSE)
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Extra built-in features:
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-* Support for streaming large HTTP bodies for requests and responses to minimize memory usage
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-* Built-in parser for web forms submitted using "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" or "multipart/form-data" encodings (including file uploads)
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-* JSON
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-* [Chunked transfer encoding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding) for both requests and responses
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-* [HTTP compression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression) with gzip for both requests and responses
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+* Minimize memory usage with disk streaming of large HTTP request or response bodies
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+* Parser for [web forms](http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4) submitted using "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" or "multipart/form-data" encodings (including file uploads)
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+* [JSON](http://www.json.org/) parsing and serialization for request and response HTTP bodies
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+* [Chunked transfer encoding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding) for request and response HTTP bodies
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+* [HTTP compression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression) with gzip for request and response HTTP bodies
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Included extensions:
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* [GCDWebUploader](GCDWebUploader/GCDWebUploader.h): subclass of GCDWebServer that implements an interface for uploading and downloading files from an iOS app's sandbox using a web browser
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Pierre-Olivier Latour