# Project Mission

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 application and devices, and to offer a simple web development
environment.

# Overview

To accomplish it's mission, Mongoose keeps balance on 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.


# 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).
