I just embedded the Mongoose Web Server into my C++ dll (just a single header and recommended in most of the stack overflow threads) and I have it up and running properly with the very minimal example code.
However, I am having a rough time finding any sort of tutorials, examples, etc. on configuring the very basic necessities of a web server. I need to figure out the following...
1) How to allow directory browsing
2 Is it possible to restrict download speeds on the files?
3) Is it possible to have a dynamic list of IPs addresses allowed to download files?
4) How to allow the download of specific file extensions (.bz2 in this case) ANSWERED
5) How to bind to a specific IP Address ANSWERED
Most of the information I have found is in regards to using the pre-compiled binary release, so I am a bit stumped right now. Any help would be fantastic!
1) "enable_directory_listing" option
2) Not built into Mongoose (at least not the version I have, which is about 6 months old). [EDIT:] Newer versions of Mongoose support throttling download speed. From the manual...
Limit download speed for clients. throttle is a comma-separated list of key=value pairs, where key could be:
* limit speed for all connections x.x.x.x/mask limit speed for specified subnet uri_prefix_pattern limit speed for given URIsThe value is a floating-point number of bytes per second, optionally followed by a k or m character, meaning kilobytes and megabytes respectively. A limit of 0 means unlimited rate. The last matching rule wins. Examples:
*=1k,10.0.0.0/8=0 limit all accesses to 1 kilobyte per second, but give connections from 10.0.0.0/8 subnet unlimited speed /downloads/=5k limit accesses to all URIs in `/downloads/` to 5 kilobytes per secods. All other accesses are unlimited
3) "access_control_list" option. In the code accept_new_connection calls check_acl that compares the client's IP to a list of IPs to accept and/or ignore. From the manual...
Specify access control list (ACL). ACL is a comma separated list of IP subnets, each subnet is prepended by '-' or '+' sign. Plus means allow, minus means deny. If subnet mask is omitted, like "-1.2.3.4", then it means single IP address. Mask may vary from 0 to 32 inclusive. On each request, full list is traversed, and last match wins. Default setting is to allow all. For example, to allow only 192.168/16 subnet to connect, run "mongoose -0.0.0.0/0,+192.168/16". Default: ""