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- <h1>Embedthis GoAhead™</h1>
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- <p>GoAhead is the worlds most popular embedded web server. It is simple, tiny and ideal for the
- the efficient hosting of embedded web applications. </p>
- <p>GoAhead is optimized for hosting dynamic embedded web applications via an event driven, single-threaded
- core. It is very compact (115K code) and is especially effective in reducing the per-request memory
- overhead for web applications.</p>
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- <h2>Extensive Features</h2>
- <p>GoAhead has a strong set of features including: HTTP/1.1, SSL, TLS, basic,digest and web-form
- authentication, user/role based authorization, session state storage,
- CGI, sandbox resource limits, logging, and conditional configuration and compilation controls.
- With these features, GoAhead can be embedded in your device to effectively host embedded applications.</p>
- <h2>Deployed Widely</h2>
- <p>The GoAhead web server is the most widely deployed embedded web server. GoAhead is being used in
- hundreds of millions of devices including:
- networking equipment,
- telephony, factory automation, data acquisition, medical devices, mobile devices and consumer and office
- equipment.</p>
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- <h2 >Components</h2>
- <p>GoAhead provides the following components:</p>
- <ul>
- <li>HTTP web server program and library</li>
- <li>Flexible URI routing and rewriting </li>
- <li>Basic, Digest and web-form authentication</li>
- <li>Granular user authorization with role/ability management </li>
- <li>Local or PAM-based password stores</li>
- <li>Session state management</li>
- <li>CGI handler</li>
- <li>In-memory URI handler (proc)</li>
- <li>Secure Socket Layer support (SSL/TLS)</li>
- <li>Request trace and logging</li>
- <li>Complete documentation with samples</li>
- <li>Full source code</li>
- </ul>
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- <h2 >Want More?</h2>
- <p>To learn more about GoAhead, please read:</p>
- <ul>
- <li><a href="users/goals.html">GoAhead Design Goals</a></li>
- <li><a href="users/uses.html">GoAhead Target Uses</a></li>
- <li><a href="https://embedthis.com/goahead/">GoAhead Web Site</a></li>
- <li><a href="https://embedthis.com/goahead/download.html">GoAhead Download</a></li>
- <li><a href="https://embedthis.com">Embedthis Web Site for Commercial Licenses and Support</a></li>
- </ul>
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