Mongoose (web server)

Original author(s)	Sergey Lyubka
Developer(s)	Cesanta Software
Stable release	6.2 / January 11, 2016 (2016-01-11)
Repository	github.com/cesanta/mongoose
Written in	C
Operating system	Cross-platform
Type	Web server
License	Dual license: GPLv2 and commercial license
Website	github.com/cesanta/mongoose/

Mongoose is a cross-platform web server by Cesanta Software.

Mongoose is built on top of Mongoose Embedded Library. Mongoose Library is used to implement RESTful services, serve Web GUI on embedded devices, create 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.

With just over 130 kB source code and an executable footprint of 40 kB on Linux 2.6 i386, Mongoose is one of the smallest web servers available. Mongoose is recommended in a book on HTML5. Via an API it can be also embedded into other programs.

Until August 2013, Mongoose was released under an MIT License. It is now released under commercial and GPLv2 open source licenses. The GPLv2 Open Source License does not generally permit incorporating Mongoose into non-open source programs. For those customers who do not wish to comply with the GPLv2 open source license requirements, Cesanta Software offers a full, royalty-free commercial license and professional support without any of the GPL restrictions.

After the license change a forked version continues to have the MIT license and is maintained independently under the name civetweb.

Features list:

• Cross-platform, support for Unix/Linux, *BSD, eCos, Windows, OS X, QNX and more
• CGI, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, WebSocket, WebDAV support
• Resumed download, URL rewriting support, HTTP proxy support
• SSL support, both one-way and two-way SSL
• IP-based ACL, Windows service, GET, POST, HEAD, PUT, DELETE methods
• Excluding files from serving by URI pattern
• HTTP client functionality