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##Libwebsockets API introduction
Libwebsockets covers a lot of interesting features for people making embedded servers or clients
- HTTP(S) serving and client operation
- HTTP/2 support for serving and client operation
- WS(S) serving and client operation
- HTTP(S) apis for file transfer and upload
- HTTP 1 + 2 POST form handling (including multipart / file upload)
- cookie-based sessions
- account management (including registration, email verification, lost pw etc)
- strong SSL / TLS PFS support (A+ on SSLlabs test)
- ssh server integration
- serving gzipped files directly from inside zip files, without conversion
- support for linux, bsd, windows etc... and very small nonlinux targets like ESP32
Please note you just need in include libwebsockets.h. It includes all the individual
includes in /usr/include/libwebsockets/ itself.
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A collection of READMEs for build, coding, lwsws etc are <a href="pages.html">here</a>