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# Introduction
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Mongoose is a networking library written in C.
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It is a swiss army knife for embedded network programming.
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It implements event-driven non-blocking APIs for TCP, UDP, HTTP,
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WebSocket, CoAP, MQTT for client and server mode.
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Features include:
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- Cross-platform: works on Linux/UNIX, MacOS, QNX, eCos, Windows, Android,
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iPhone, FreeRTOS
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- Native support for [PicoTCP embedded TCP/IP stack](http://www.picotcp.com),
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[LWIP embedded TCP/IP stack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LwIP)
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- Works on a variety of embedded boards: TI CC3200, TI MSP430, STM32, ESP8266;
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on all Linux-based boards like Raspberry PI, BeagleBone, etc
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- Single-threaded, asynchronous, non-blocking core with simple event-based API
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- Built-in protocols:
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- plain TCP, plain UDP, SSL/TLS (one-way or two-way), client and server
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- HTTP client and server
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- WebSocket client and server
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- MQTT client and server
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- CoAP client and server
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- DNS client and server
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- asynchronous DNS resolver
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- Tiny static and run-time footprint
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- Source code is both ISO C and ISO C++ compliant
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- Very easy to integrate: just copy
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[mongoose.c](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cesanta/mongoose/master/mongoose.c) and
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[mongoose.h](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cesanta/mongoose/master/mongoose.h)
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files to your build tree
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