mongoose/docs/overview.md

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Overview

Mongoose is a swiss army knife for embedded network programming. It implements event-driven non-blocking API for TCP, UDP, HTTP, WebSocket, CoAP, MQTT, JSON-RPC for both client and server mode. Features include:

• Cross-platform: works on Linux/UNIX, MacOS, QNX, eCos, Windows, Android, iPhone, FreeRTOS (TI CC3200, ESP8266), etc
• Single-threaded, asynchronous, non-blocking core with simple event-based API
• Native support for PicoTCP embedded TCP/IP stack, LWIP embedded TCP/IP stack
• Builtin protocols:
  • plain TCP, plain UDP, SSL/TLS (over TCP, one-way or two-way)
  • HTTP client, HTTP server
  • WebSocket client, WebSocket server
  • JSON-RPC client, JSON-RPC server
  • MQTT client, MQTT broker
  • CoAP client, CoAP server
  • DNS client, DNS server, async DNS resolver
• Tiny static and run-time footprint
• Source code is both ISO C and ISO C++ compliant
• Very easy to integrate: just copy mongoose.c and mongoose.h files to your build tree