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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
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-web interface for their applications or devices and web developers looking for
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-a simple development platform.
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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 for their
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+application and devices, and to offer a simple development 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 [MIT license](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License), which is great for commercial use
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-- 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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+- Liberal, commercial-friendly [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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+- Support for CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV
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+- Lua server pages (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
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- 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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+- Simple and clean embedding 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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+- Extensive documentation in form of [User Manual](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/wiki/UserManual)
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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).
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+Questions can be asked at
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+[mongoose-users@google.com](http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users) mailing list.
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Keep Sergey happy
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-----------------
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-I have a [books wishlist](http://amzn.com/w/1OC2ZCPTQYIEP?sort=priority) on
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-Amazon. If you feel brave, you can buy me a book! Many thanks to all who
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+Since 2004, Mongoose is being constantly improved by me, Sergey Lyubka, a software engineer
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+from Galway, Ireland. My other software I give to the community for free is
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+[Super Light Regular Expression library](http://code.google.com/p/slre).
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+If you feel grateful for the stuff I've done, you can buy me a book from my
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+[Amazon wishlist](http://amzn.com/w/1OC2ZCPTQYIEP?sort=priority). Many thanks to all who
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already did so: T.Barmann, D.Hughes, J.C.Sloan, R.Romeo and 4 others.
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-Appreciated, guys, you keep my brains going!
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+Appreciated guys, you keep my brains going!
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