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# Project Mission
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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
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for their application and devices, and to offer a simple web development
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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, commercial-friendly
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[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
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[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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- Simple and clean embedding API,
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[mongoose.h](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/mongoose.h).
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The source is in single
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[mongoose.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/mongoose.c) file
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to make things easy
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- Embedding examples:
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[hello.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/hello.c),
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[post.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/post.c),
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[upload.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/upload.c),
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[websocket.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/websocket.c)
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- HTTP client functionality for embedded usage, capable of
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sending arbitrary HTTP/HTTPS requests
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- [User Manual](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/UserManual.md)
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Questions can be asked at
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[mongoose-users@google.com](http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users)
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mailing list.
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# Keep Sergey happy
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I am Sergey Lyubka, a software engineer from Galway, Ireland. I started
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working on Mongoose in 2004, and since then continuously improve it,
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investing thousands of hours of work. My other project I'm contributing to the
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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
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to all who already did so: T.Barmann, D.Hughes, J.C.Sloan, R.Romeo,
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L.E.Spencer, S.Kotay, R.M.Shorter and 7 others.
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Appreciated guys, you keep my brains going! Cash is also welcome indeed.
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Press [<img src="http://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donate_SM.gif">](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=DGZ2FMP95TAL6)
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button to donate. Donation progress: 139/1000 €
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(thanks to O.M.Vilhunen, C.Radik, G.Woodcock, M.Szczepkowski,
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Eternal Lands Development Team, T.Tollet)
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