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 +====== Design Goals ======
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 +The design goals for OpenTrafficShaper are an extremely light weight traffic shaping package which is able utilize plugins to implement required features and run in very small amounts of RAM.
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 ====== Plugin/Interface: Webserver ====== ====== Plugin/Interface: Webserver ======
  
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 ===== Snapins ===== ===== Snapins =====
 Snapins are full on plugins which inject resources into the webserver. WebSockets is a good example of this which injects both a protocol transition handler and a websocket handler into the webserver. Snapins are full on plugins which inject resources into the webserver. WebSockets is a good example of this which injects both a protocol transition handler and a websocket handler into the webserver.
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 +====== Plugin/Interface: Statistics ======
 +The statistics plugin/interface is a system which allows for a central statistics management system. This system is responsible for storing of statistics, providing a subscription interface which can trigger events on new statistic information. This interface is fed from a specific shaper statistics module by triggering its statistics update event. Look at the tcstats plugin for an example.