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  1. == Introduction
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  3. Ranch is a socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.
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  5. Ranch aims to provide everything you need to accept TCP connections
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  6. with a small code base and low latency while being easy to use directly
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  7. as an application or to embed into your own.
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  9. === Prerequisites
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  11. It is assumed the developer already knows Erlang and has some experience
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  12. with socket programming and TCP protocols.
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  14. === Supported platforms
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  16. Ranch is tested and supported on Linux, FreeBSD, OSX and Windows.
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  18. Ranch is developed for Erlang/OTP R16B+.
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  20. There are known issues with the SSL application found in Erlang/OTP
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  21. 18.3.2 and 18.3.3. These versions are therefore not supported.
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  23. Ranch may be compiled on earlier Erlang versions with small source code
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  24. modifications but there is no guarantee that it will work as expected.
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  26. === Versioning
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  28. Ranch uses http://semver.org/[Semantic Versioning 2.0.0]
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