Project mission is to provide easy to use, powerful, embeddable web server.
Meerkat currently starts at the last MIT release of Mongoose. The basic feature list is below:
- Liberal, commercial-friendly MIT license
- 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.
I'm Cory Hyland from these United States and I'm actively programming C++ applications. I'm hoping to make Meerkat into a highly useful library in continuation of the original Mongoose project. I'm using this webserver in my own projects and hope that someone will find the changes useful. The project will remain under the MIT license so that anyone can make use of it without concern for cumbersome licensing.
I am Sergey Lyubka, a software engineer from Galway, Ireland. I started working on Mongoose in 2004, and since then continuously improve it, investing thousands of hours of work. My other project I'm contributing to the community for free is Super Light Regular Expression library.