diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 475c31fa830f5e74849bef370a8e91b12b895d5b..4d0e860a69a1a86f2eee171dc7c3929927d9f6a9 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,19 +1,27 @@ # <img src="http://cesanta.com/images/mongoose_logo.png" width="64" height="64"> Mongoose Web Server -Mongoose is easy to use, powerful, embeddable 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. + + * [Mailing list](http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users) - * [Downloads](http://cesanta.com/mongoose.shtml) and - [Documentation](http://cesanta.com/docs.shtml) - * [How to use Lua Server Pages](http://cesanta.com/docs/Lua.shtml) - * [How to create basic website with Mongoose](http://cesanta.com/docs/BasicWebsite.shtml) - * [How to create PHP website with Mongoose](http://cesanta.com/docs/PhpWebsite.shtml) - * [Embedding Guide](http://cesanta.com/docs/Embed.shtml) + * [Downloads](http://cesanta.com/mongoose.shtml) + * [Documentation](http://cesanta.com/docs.shtml) # 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 -- Lua Server Pages (PHP-like scripting in [Lua](http://lua.org) ), see [dirscan.lp](https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/blob/master/examples/lua/dirscan.lp) +- 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](https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/blob/master/mongoose.h). The source is in single @@ -21,11 +29,9 @@ Mongoose is easy to use, powerful, embeddable web server. 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 -- HTTP client functionality -- On the market since 2004, stable, mature and tested, - has several man-years invested in continuous improvement and refinement -- Professional support and consultancy available from -[Cesanta Software](http://cesanta.com), developer of Mongoose +- 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