Mongoose - Embedded Web Server / Embedded Networking Library
Mongoose is a networking library for C/C++. It implements event-driven non-blocking APIs for TCP, UDP, HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT. It has been designed for connecting devices and bringing them online. On the market since 2004, used by vast number of open source and commercial products - it even runs on the International Space Station! Mongoose makes embedded network programming fast, robust, and easy.
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Source code and documentation:
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Support
- Study Mongoose examples
- Support Forum - ask your technical questions here
- Commercial licensing and support available
- Check out latest releases
Features
- Cross-platform: works on Linux/UNIX, MacOS, Windows, Android, FreeRTOS, etc
- Supported embedded architectures: ESP32, ESP8266, TI, NRF52, STM32, PIC32, NXP, and more
- Builtin protocols: plain TCP/UDP, HTTP, MQTT, Websocket
- SSL/TLS support: mbedTLS, OpenSSL or custom (via API)
- Asynchronous DNS resolver
- Tiny static and run-time footprint
- Source code is both ISO C and ISO C++ compliant
- Very easy to integrate: just copy mongoose.c and mongoose.h files to your build tree
Licensing
Mongoose is released under Commercial and GNU GPL v.2 open source licenses.
Commercial Projects: Contact us for commercial license.
Dashboard Example
Mongoose is often used to implement device dashboards and real-time data exchange over Websocket. Here is a dashboard example that illustrates the functionality:
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Contributions
Contributions are welcome! Please follow the guidelines below:
- Sign Cesanta CLA and send GitHub pull request
- When making pull requests, please make sure that it has only one commit, and imlements/fixes only one piece of functionality