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# Project Mission
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Project mission is to provide simple, functional, embeddable web server to
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make it easy for application and device developers to implement web interface
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for their application and devices, and to offer a simple web development
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environment.
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# Overview
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To accomplish it's mission, Mongoose keeps balance on functionality and
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simplicity by carefully selected list of features:
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- Liberal, commercial-friendly
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[MIT license](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License)
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- Works on Windows, Mac, UNIX, iPhone, Android, and many other platforms
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- Scripting and database support (Lua Server Pages + Sqlite, see
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[page.lp](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/test/page.lp) ),
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which provides ready to go, powerful web development platform in
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one single-click executable with **no dependencies**: forget LAMP!
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- Support for CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV
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- Resumed download, URL rewrite, file blacklist, IP-based ACL, Windows service
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- Download speed limit based on client subnet or URI pattern
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- Simple and clean embedding API,
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[mongoose.h](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/mongoose.h).
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The source is in single
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[mongoose.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/mongoose.c) file
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to make things easy. Embedding examples:
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[hello.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/hello.c),
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[post.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/post.c),
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[upload.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/upload.c),
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[websocket.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/websocket.c)
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- HTTP client capable of sending arbitrary HTTP/HTTPS requests
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- [User Manual](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/UserManual.md)
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Note that Windows and MacOS binaries have following 3rd party software
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compiled in:
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<a href="http://wolfssl.com">WolfSSL lightweight SSL library</a>,
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<a href="http://sqlite.org">SQLite embedded database</a>,
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<a href="http://lua.org">Lua embedded scripting engine</a>.
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Questions can be asked at
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[mongoose-users@google.com](http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users)
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mailing list.
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# Author
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I am Sergey Lyubka, a software engineer from Galway, Ireland. I started
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working on Mongoose in 2004, and since then continuously improve it,
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investing thousands of hours of work. My other project I'm contributing to the
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community for free is
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[Super Light Regular Expression library](http://code.google.com/p/slre).
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