diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 42263d0aef924d35feefc6f9ab4aeae578e51f2d..d67b5df6b79b58b31dab29628744d21a1dd816f1 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,13 +1,9 @@ Project Mission --------------- -Project mission is to provide the community with simple and functional -web server library and web server executable built on top of that library. - - -The target audience are application or device developers looking to implement -web interface for their applications or devices and web developers looking for -a simple development platform. +Project mission is to provide simple, functional, embeddable web server to +make it easy for application and device developers to implement web interface for their +application and devices, and to offer a simple development environment. Overview -------- @@ -15,32 +11,32 @@ Overview To accomplish it's mission, Mongoose keeps balance on functionality and simplicity by carefully selected list of features: -- Liberal [MIT license](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License), which is great for commercial use -- Crossplatform - works on Windows, Mac and UNIX -- CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV support -- Lua server pages support (PHP-like functionality using Lua), see [page.lp](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/test/page.lp) +- Liberal, commercial-friendly [MIT license](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License) +- Works on Windows, Mac, UNIX, iPhone, Android, and many other platforms +- Support for CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV +- Lua server pages (PHP-like functionality using Lua), see [page.lp](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/test/page.lp) - Resumed download, URL rewrite, IP-based ACL, Windows service - Excluding files from serving by URI pattern (file blacklist) - Download speed limit based on client subnet or URI pattern - Small footprint: executable size is 50 kB on Linux 2.6 i386 system - 130 kilobytes Windows executable with all of the above and no dependencies -- Embeddable with simple and clean API ([mongoose.h](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/mongoose.h)). The source is in single [mongoose.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/mongoose.c) file to make things easy. +- Simple and clean embedding API ([mongoose.h](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/mongoose.h)). The source is in single [mongoose.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/mongoose.c) file to make things easy. - Embedding examples: [hello.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/hello.c), [post.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/post.c), [upload.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/upload.c), [websocket.c](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/blob/master/examples/websocket.c) +- Extensive documentation in form of [User Manual](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/wiki/UserManual) - -See [manual](https://github.com/valenok/mongoose/wiki/Manual) for more information. - - -Mailing list ------------- - -You can read it online, subscribe to, or send a message at [mongoose-users](http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users). +Questions can be asked at +[mongoose-users@google.com](http://groups.google.com/group/mongoose-users) mailing list. Keep Sergey happy ----------------- -I have a [books wishlist](http://amzn.com/w/1OC2ZCPTQYIEP?sort=priority) on -Amazon. If you feel brave, you can buy me a book! Many thanks to all who +Since 2004, Mongoose is being constantly improved by me, Sergey Lyubka, a software engineer +from Galway, Ireland. My other software I give to the community for free is +[Super Light Regular Expression library](http://code.google.com/p/slre). + + +If you feel grateful for the stuff I've done, you can buy me a book from my +[Amazon wishlist](http://amzn.com/w/1OC2ZCPTQYIEP?sort=priority). Many thanks to all who already did so: T.Barmann, D.Hughes, J.C.Sloan, R.Romeo and 4 others. -Appreciated, guys, you keep my brains going! +Appreciated guys, you keep my brains going!