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Project Mission
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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
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application and devices, and to offer a simple web development environment.
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Overview
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To accomplish it's mission, Mongoose keeps balance on functionality and
simplicity by carefully selected list of features:
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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
- Support for CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV
- 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
- 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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- 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/blob/master/UserManual.md )
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Questions can be asked at
[mongoose-users@google.com ](http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users ) mailing list.
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Keep Sergey happy
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Since 2004, Mongoose is being constantly improved by me, Sergey Lyubka, a software engineer
from Galway, Ireland. My other software I give to the community for free is
[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 already did so: T.Barmann, D.Hughes, J.C.Sloan, R.Romeo,
L.E.Spencer, and 4 others. Appreciated guys, you keep my brains going!
