Mongoose is an easy to use web server. It can be embedded into existing application to provide a web interface to it.

Mongoose web server executable is self-sufficient, it does not depend on anything to start serving requests. If it is copied to any directory and executed, it starts to serve that directory on port 8080 (so to access files, go to http://localhost:8080).

If some additional config is required - for example, different listening port or IP-based access control, then a mongoose.conf file with respective options (see example) can be created in the same directory where executable lives.

This makes Mongoose perfect for all sorts of demos, file sharing, quick tests, and Web programming.

Installation and usage: Unarchive, open a Terminal window, go to Mongoose's folder and run the following commands from the command line:

make mac
./mongoose

Here are some key features of "Mongoose":

· Cross platform - works on Mac OS X, Windows, and most flavors of UNIX
· CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, resumed download, aliases
· IP-based ACL, Windows service, GET, POST, HEAD, PUT, DELETE methods
· Small footprint: 40 Kb executable on Linux 2.6 i386 system
· Embeddable with simple and clean API. Source is in single .c file to make things easy
· Language suport for: C/C++ (native), Python - since version 2.6, C# - since version 2.7

Requirements:

· Apple Xcode (to build Mongoose from source)