- CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV support
- Resumed download, URL rewrite support
- IP-based ACL, Windows service, GET, POST, HEAD, PUT, DELETE methods
- Excluding files from serving by URI pattern
- Download speed limit based on client subnet or URI pattern
- Small footprint: executable size is 40 kB on Linux 2.6 i386 system
- Embeddable with simple and clean 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.