- Crossplatform - works on Windows, MacOS and most flavors of UNIX
- CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV support
- Lua server pages
- Resumed download, URL rewrite support
- IP-based ACL, Windows service, GET, POST, HEAD, PUT, DELETE methods
- Excluding files from serving by URI pattern
- Lua server pages (like PHP, but using Lua as a language instead of PHP)
- Resumed download, URL rewrite, IP-based ACL, Windows service
- Excluding files from serving by URI pattern (file blacklist)
- Download speed limit based on client subnet or URI pattern
- Small footprint: executable size is 40 kB on Linux 2.6 i386 system
- Small footprint: executable size is 50 kB on Linux 2.6 i386 system
- 130 kilobytes Windows executable with all of the above compiled in, and no dependencies
- 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.