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Mongoose Embedded Web Server Library - Mongoose is more than an embedded webserver. It is a multi-protocol embedded networking library with functions including TCP, HTTP client and server, WebSocket, JSON-RPC client and server and much more.

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Mongoose - Embedded Web Server / Embedded Networking Library

Mongoose is ideal for embedded environments. It has been designed for connecting devices and bringing them online. On the market since 2004, used by vast number of open source and commercial products - it even runs on space stations! Mongoose makes embedded network programming fast, robust, and easy.

If you're looking for a pre-compiled Windows or Mac binary,

Alternatively,

If you are looking for a complete solution with firmware and cloud components, check out Mongoose IoT Platform.

Support

Features

  • Cross-platform: works on Linux/UNIX, MacOS, QNX, eCos, Windows, Android, iPhone, FreeRTOS (TI CC3200, ESP8266), etc
  • Single-threaded, asynchronous, non-blocking core with simple event-based API
  • Native support for PicoTCP embedded TCP/IP stack, LWIP embedded TCP/IP stack
  • Builtin protocols:
    • plain TCP, plain UDP, SSL/TLS (over TCP, one-way or two-way)
    • HTTP client, HTTP server
    • WebSocket client, WebSocket server
    • JSON-RPC client, JSON-RPC server
    • MQTT client, MQTT broker
    • CoAP client, CoAP server
    • DNS client, DNS server, async DNS resolver
  • Tiny static and run-time footprint
  • Source code is both ISO C and ISO C++ compliant
  • Very easy to integrate: just copy mongoose.c and mongoose.h files to your build tree

Licensing

Mongoose is released under commercial and GNU GPL v.2 open source licenses.

Commercial Projects: Once your project becomes commercialised GPLv2 licensing dictates that you need to either open your source fully or purchase a commercial license. Cesanta offer full, royalty-free commercial licenses without any GPL restrictions. If your needs require a custom license, we’d be happy to work on a solution with you. [Contact us for pricing.] (https://www.cesanta.com/contact)

Prototyping: While your project is still in prototyping stage and not for sale, you can use Mongoose’s open source code without license restrictions.

Dashboard Example

Mongoose is often used to implement device dashboards and real-time data exchange over Websocket. Here is a dashboard example that illustrates the functionality:

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Contributions

People who have agreed to the [Cesanta CLA] (https://docs.cesanta.com/contributors_la.shtml) can make contributions. Note that the CLA isn't a copyright assigment but rather a copyright license. You retain the copyright on your contributions.

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