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Project Mission

Project mission is to provide simple, functional, embeddable web server to make it easy for application and device developers to implement web interface for their application and devices, and to offer a simple web development environment.

Overview

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

• Liberal, commercial-friendly MIT license
• Works on Windows, Mac, UNIX, iPhone, Android, and many other platforms
• Support for CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV
• Lua server pages with Sqlite, see page.lp -- that provides ready to go, powerful web development platform in one single-click-and-it-runs executable with no dependencies
• 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
• Simple and clean embedding 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
• HTTP client capable of sending arbitrary HTTP/HTTPS requests
• User Manual

Note that Windows and MacOS binaries have following 3rd party software compiled in: WolfSSL lightweight SSL library, SQLite embedded database, Lua embedded scripting engine.

Questions can be asked at mongoose-users@google.com mailing list.

Author

I am Sergey Lyubka, a software engineer from Galway, Ireland. I started working on Mongoose in 2004, and since then continuously improve it, investing thousands of hours of work. My other project I'm contributing to the community for free is Super Light Regular Expression library.