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@@ -5,12 +5,13 @@ GCDWebServer is a lightweight GCD based HTTP 1.1 server designed to be embedded
* Easy to use and understand architecture with only 4 core classes: server, connection, request and response
* Well designed API for easy integration and customization
* Entirely built with an event-driven design using [Grand Central Dispatch](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch) for maximum performance and concurrency
* Support for streaming large HTTP bodies for requests and responses to minimize memory usage
* Built-in parser for web forms submitted using "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" or "multipart/form-data" encodings (including file uploads)
* No dependencies on third-party source code
* Available under a friendly [New BSD License](LICENSE)
Extra built-in features:
* Support for streaming large HTTP bodies for requests and responses to minimize memory usage
* Built-in parser for web forms submitted using "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" or "multipart/form-data" encodings (including file uploads)
* JSON
* [Chunked transfer encoding](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding) for both requests and responses
* [HTTP compression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression) with gzip for both requests and responses
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Web Based Uploads in iOS Apps
=============================
GCDWebUploader is a subclass of GCDWebServer that provides a ready-to-use HTML 5 file uploader & downloader. This lets users upload, download and delete files from a directory inside your iOS app's sandbox using a clean user interface in their web browser.
GCDWebUploader is a subclass of GCDWebServer that provides a ready-to-use HTML 5 file uploader & downloader. This lets users upload, download, delete files and create directories from a directory inside your iOS app's sandbox using a clean user interface in their web browser.
Simply instantiate and run a GCDWebUploader instance then visit http://{YOUR-IOS-DEVICE-IP-ADDRESS}/ from your web browser:
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WebDAV Server in iOS Apps
=========================
GCDWebDAVServer is a subclass of GCDWebServer that provides a class 1 compliant [WebDAV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV) server. This lets users upload, download and delete files from a directory inside your iOS app's sandbox using any WebDAV client like [Transmit](https://panic.com/transmit/) (Mac), [ForkLift](http://binarynights.com/forklift/) (Mac) or [CyberDuck](http://cyberduck.io/) (Mac / Windows).
GCDWebDAVServer is a subclass of GCDWebServer that provides a class 1 compliant [WebDAV](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV) server. This lets users upload, download, delete files and create directories from a directory inside your iOS app's sandbox using any WebDAV client like [Transmit](https://panic.com/transmit/) (Mac), [ForkLift](http://binarynights.com/forklift/) (Mac) or [CyberDuck](http://cyberduck.io/) (Mac / Windows).
Simply instantiate and run a GCDWebDAVServer instance then connect to http://{YOUR-IOS-DEVICE-IP-ADDRESS}/ using a WebDAV client:
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Final Example: File Downloads and Uploads From iOS App
======================================================
GCDWebServer was originally written for the [ComicFlow](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comicflow/id409290355?mt=8) comic reader app for iPad. It uses it to provide a web server for people to upload and download comic files directly over WiFi to and from the app.
GCDWebServer was originally written for the [ComicFlow](http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/comicflow/id409290355?mt=8) comic reader app for iPad. It lets users upload, download and organize comic files inside the app using their web browser directly over WiFi.
ComicFlow is [entirely open-source](https://github.com/swisspol/ComicFlow) and you can see how it uses GCDWebUploader in the [WebServer.m](https://github.com/swisspol/ComicFlow/blob/master/Classes/WebServer.m) file.