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# Project Mission | |
Project mission is to provide easy to use, powerful, embeddable web server. | |
# Overview | |
Mongoose keeps the balance between functionality and | |
simplicity by carefully selected list of features: | |
- Liberal, commercial-friendly | |
[MIT license](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License) | |
- 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@google.com](http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users) | |
mailing list. | |
[![ ](https://cruel-carlota.pagodabox.com/2a613890c1f4b60e5919a9c1dd3caca2 "githalytics.com")](http://githalytics.com/valenok/mongoose) | |
# Author | |
I am Sergey Lyubka, a software engineer from Galway, Ireland. I started | |
working on Mongoose in 2004, and since then continuously improve it, | |
investing thousands of hours of work. My other project I'm contributing to the | |
community for free is | |
[Super Light Regular Expression library](http://code.google.com/p/slre). |