Mongoose Web Server

Mongoose is the most easy to use web server on the planet. A web server of choice for Web developers (PHP, Ruby, Python, etc) and Web designers.

Mongoose is built on top of Libmongoose embedded library, which can turn anything into a web server in 5 minutes worth of effort and few lines of code. Libmongoose is used to serve Web GUI on embedded devices, implement RESTful services, RPC frameworks (e.g. JSON-RPC), handle telemetry data exchange, and perform many other tasks in various different industries including aerospace, manufacturing, finance, research, automotive, gaming, IT.

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Features

Works on Windows, Mac, UNIX/Linux, iPhone, Android eCos, QNX and many other platforms
CGI, SSI, SSL, Digest auth, Websocket, WEbDAV, Resumed download, URL rewrite, file blacklist
Custom error pages, Virtual hosts, IP-based ACL, Windows service, HTTP/HTTPS client
Simple and clean embedding API. The source is in single mongoose.c file to make embedding easy
Extremely lightweight, has a core of under 40kB and tiny runtime footprint
Asynchronous, non-blocking core supporting single- or multi-threaded usage
On the market since 2004 with over 1 million cumulative downloads
Stable, mature and tested, has several man-years invested in continuous improvement and refinement

Screenshots

Download, double-click to start, run browser -- that's all!

Contributions

People who have agreed to the Cesanta CLA can make contributions. Note that the CLA isn't a copyright assigment but rather a copyright license. You retain the copyright on your contributions.

Licensing

Mongoose is released under commercial and GNU GPL v.2 open source licenses. The GPLv2 open source License does not generally permit incorporating this software into non-open source programs. For those customers who do not wish to comply with the GPLv2 open source license requirements, Cesanta offers a full, royalty-free commercial license and professional support without any of the GPL restrictions.

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