Project mission is to provide easy to use, powerful, embeddable web server.

Sources, binaries and bundles are available for download at mongoose downloads.

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 ), 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. The source is in single mongoose.c file to make things easy. Embedding examples: hello.c, post.c, upload.c, websocket.c
• HTTP client capable of sending arbitrary HTTP/HTTPS requests
• User Manual

Note that Windows and MacOS binaries have following 3rd party software compiled in: WolfSSL lightweight SSL library, SQLite embedded database, Lua embedded scripting engine.

Questions can be asked at [email protected] mailing list.

Author is grateful to the following people who made their contribution:

Arnout Vandecappelle, Benoît Amiaux, Boris Pek, Cody Hanson, Colin Leitner, Daniel Oaks, Eric Bakan, Erik Oomen, Filipp Kovalev, Ger Hobbelt, Hendrik Polczynski, Igor Okulist, Jay, Joe Mucchiello, John Safranek, José Miguel Gonçalves, Shueng Chuan, Katerina Blinova, Konstantin Sorokin, Marin Atanasov, Matt Healy, Mitch Hendrickson, Nigel Stewart, Pavel Khlebovich, Sebastian Reinhard, Stefan Doehla, abadc0de, nullable.type, T.Barmann, D.Hughes, J.C.Sloan, R.Romeo, L.E.Spencer, S.Kotay, R.M.Shorter, W.Mar, J.Wilander, Santa from Memphis, S.Davies, C.Beck, O.M.Vilhunen, C.Radik, G.Woodcock, M.Szczepkowski, Eternal Lands Dev Team, T.Tollet, C.Tangerino, G.Karsai, A.Bourgett, C.Blakemore, D.Fonaryov, T.Andrle, O.IJsselmuiden, R.Womack, M.Tomlinson, A.Slåttå, L.Farrell, J.D.P.Ballestero, V.Albaev, B.Harker, T.Scheffel, H.Klein, R.Merit, T.Bennett, H.Solis, A.Zincenko, M.S., S.Krul, K.Cooke, S.McCallum, F.Morenius, and 10 others.

Mongoose is dual-licensed. It is available under the terms of GNU GPL v.2 license license for free, or under the terms of standard commercial license provided by Cesanta Software.

Super Light Regular Expression library is another project by Cesanta Software, developed with the same philosophy of functionality and simplicity.