Project Mission

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

To accomplish it's mission, Mongoose keeps balance on functionality and simplicity by carefully selected list of features:

• Liberal 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
• 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). The source is in single mongoose.c file to make things easy.
• Embedding examples: hello.c, post.c, upload.c, websocket.c

See manual for more information.

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