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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: only 4 core classes to deal with
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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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* Support for streaming large HTTP bodies for requests and responses to minimize memory usage
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@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ GCDWebServer is a lightweight GCD based HTTP 1.1 server designed to be embedded
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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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+* [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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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