Civetweb is a small footprint HTTP Server with optional Lua and SQLite support written in C. It can be embedded into C/C++ applications or used as stand alone web server for Windows, Linux, BSD or Mac-OS.
This project is based on the Mongoose web server, but maintains the MIT license and is free from GPL licenses.

Installation Guide
https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb/blob/master/docs/Installing.md

Contributions are welcome and encouraged.
The official source code is at
https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb
Problems may be reported at
https://github.com/civetweb/civetweb/issues

Use the "Civetweb" Google groups for questions and discussion
https://groups.google.com/d/forum/civetweb

Features

  • Scripting and database support (Lua Server Pages + Sqlite)
  • Support for CGI, SSL, SSI, Digest (MD5) authorization, Websocket, WEbDAV
  • Simple and clean embedding API,
  • The source is in a single file

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Categories

HTTP Servers

License

MIT License

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  • Beautiful little web server, threaded and supports many features you'd want (eg SSL!). Truly easy to get embedded in an existing application.
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Additional Project Details

Operating Systems

BSD, Linux, Windows

Programming Language

C, C++, Lua

Database Environment

SQLite

Related Categories

C++ HTTP Servers, C HTTP Servers, Lua HTTP Servers

Registered

2013-08-15