Project Mission
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Project mission is to provide a simple and functional web server library
and web server executable built on top of that library, to
make it easy for application/device developers to implement web interface for their
application/devices, and to offer a simple development platform to the web developers.

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
- CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV support
- Lua server pages support (PHP-like functionality using Lua), see [page.lp](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/test/page.lp)
- Resumed download, URL rewrite, IP-based ACL, Windows service
- Excluding files from serving by URI pattern (file blacklist)
- Download speed limit based on client subnet or URI pattern
- Small footprint: executable size is 50 kB on Linux 2.6 i386 system
- 130 kilobytes Windows executable with all of the above and no dependencies
- 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.
- 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)


See [manual](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/wiki/Manual) for more information.


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!