mongoose/README.md
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# Project Mission
Project mission is to provide easy to use, powerful, embeddable web server.
# Downloads
Sources, binaries and bundles are available for download at
[mongoose downloads](http://cesanta.com/downloads.html).
# Overview
Mongoose keeps the balance between functionality and
simplicity by carefully selected list of features:
- Works on Windows, Mac, UNIX, iPhone, Android, and many other platforms
- Scripting and database support (Lua Server Pages + Sqlite, see
[page.lp](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/test/page.lp) ),
which provides ready to go, powerful web development platform in
one single-click executable with **no dependencies**: forget LAMP!
- Support for CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV
- Resumed download, URL rewrite, file blacklist, IP-based ACL, Windows service
- Download speed limit based on client subnet or URI pattern
- 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. 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)
- HTTP client capable of sending arbitrary HTTP/HTTPS requests
- [User Manual](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/UserManual.md)
Note that Windows and MacOS binaries have following 3rd party software
compiled in:
<a href="http://wolfssl.com">WolfSSL lightweight SSL library</a>,
<a href="http://sqlite.org">SQLite embedded database</a>,
<a href="http://lua.org">Lua embedded scripting engine</a>.
Questions can be asked at
[mongoose-users@googlegroups.com](http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users)
mailing list.
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# License
Mongoose is dual-licensed. It is available under the terms of
[GNU GPL v.2](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html) license
license for free, or under the terms of standard commercial license provided
by [Cesanta Software](http://cesanta.com).
[Super Light Regular Expression library](https://github.com/cesanta/slre) is
another project by Cesanta Software, developed with the same philosophy
of functionality and simplicity.