Built-in capabilities that ship with pounce -- no external dependencies required (except where noted).
Static File Serving
Chunked serving with ETags, range requests, and pre-compression
Middleware System
ASGI3 middleware stack for request/response transformation
Development Error Pages
Rich HTML tracebacks with syntax highlighting (debug mode)
Lifecycle Logging
Structured connection/request events with correlation IDs
WebSocket Compression
Permessage-deflate compression (RFC 7692)
For protocol support (HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, WebSocket, HTTP/3), see Protocols. For deployment features (compression, observability, backpressure), see Deployment.