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Project Mission
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Project mission is to provide the community with simple and functional
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web server library and web server executable built on top of that library.
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The target audience are application or device developers looking to implement
web interface for their applications or devices and web developers looking for
a simple development platform.
Overview
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To accomplish it's mission, Mongoose keeps balance on functionality and
simplicity by carefully selected list of features:
- Liberal [MIT license ](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License ), which is great for commercial use
- Crossplatform - works on Windows, Mac and UNIX
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- CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV support
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- Lua server pages support (PHP-like functionality using Lua), see [page.lp ](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/test/page.lp )
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- Resumed download, URL rewrite, IP-based ACL, Windows service
- Excluding files from serving by URI pattern (file blacklist)
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- Download speed limit based on client subnet or URI pattern
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- Small footprint: executable size is 50 kB on Linux 2.6 i386 system
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- 130 kilobytes Windows executable with all of the above and no dependencies
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- Embeddable with simple and clean API ([mongoose.h](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/mongoose.h)). The source is in single [mongoose.c ](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/mongoose.c ) file to make things easy.
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- Embedding examples: [hello.c ](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/hello.c ), [post.c ](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/post.c ), [upload.c ](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/upload.c ), [websocket.c ](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/websocket.c )
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See [manual ](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/wiki/Manual ) for more information.
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Mailing list
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You can read it online, subscribe to, or send a message at [mongoose-users ](http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users ).
Keep Sergey happy
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I have a [books wishlist ](http://amzn.com/w/1OC2ZCPTQYIEP?sort=priority ) on
Amazon. If you feel brave, you can buy me a book! Many thanks to all who
already did so: T.Barmann, D.Hughes, J.C.Sloan, R.Romeo and 4 others.
Appreciated, guys, you keep my brains going!
