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:

• Works on Windows, Mac, UNIX, iPhone, Android, and many other platforms
• Support for CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV
• Lua server pages (PHP-like functionality using Lua) with SQLite3, 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: Mongoose executable size is 64 kB on Linux 2.6 i386 system
• 320 kilobytes Windows executable with all of the above (including SSL, Lua, Sqlite) and no dependencies
• Simple and clean embedding API, mongoose.h. The source is in single mongoose.c file to make things easy.
• HTTP client functionality for embedded usage, capable of sending arbitrary HTTP/HTTPS requests
• Embedding examples: hello.c, post.c, upload.c, websocket.c
• User Manual

Questions can be asked at http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users mailing list. Project's source code is hosted on GitHub, https://github.com/valenok/mongoose, please go there to file bugs and pull requests.

License

Mongoose is dual-licensed. It is available under the terms of GNU GPL v.2 license license for free, or under the terms of standard commercial license provided by Cesanta Software.

Super Light Regular Expression library is another project developed by the same developer, under the same philosophy of functionality and simplicity.