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Meerkat Lightweight Embedded Web Server

Lightweight Web Server for your application needs. Turn anything into a web server fast.

  • Documentation - configuration options and API reference
  • Examples - example programs for various use cases

Check out Fossa - our embedded multi-protocol library with TCP,UDP,HTTP,Websocket,MQTT,DNS support, designed for Internet Of Things!

Features

  • Works on Windows, Mac, UNIX/Linux, iPhone, Android eCos, QNX and many other platforms
  • Digest auth, URL rewrite, file blacklist
  • Custom error pages, Virtual hosts, IP-based ACL, HTTP client
  • Simple and clean embedding API. The source code is in single meerkat.c file 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
  • Stable, mature and tested, has several man-years invested in continuous improvement and refinement

Note: Meerkat does NOT support HTTPS, CGI, SSI, Websocket. So we advice to consider using Mongoose Library if you require this functionality.

Licensing

Meerkat is released under commercial and GNU GPL v.2 open source licenses. The GPLv2 open source License does not generally permit incorporating this software into non-open source programs. For those customers who do not wish to comply with the GPLv2 open source license requirements, Cesanta Software offers a full, royalty-free commercial license and professional support without any of the GPL restrictions.