Embedding Mongoose Web Server in C++ - c++

Question

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!

Answer 1

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 URIs
The 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: ""
http://code.google.com/p/mongoose/wiki/MongooseManual

Answer 2

Of course as soon as I give up and post, I find most of the answers were right in front of my face. Here is the options for them...
const char *options[] =
{
"document_root", "C:/",
"listening_ports", "127.0.0.1:8080",
"extra_mime_types", ".bz2=plain/text",
NULL
};
However, I am still not sure how to make enable directory browsing. Right now, my callback function is just the basic one out of the example (as seen below). What would I need to do to get it so the files are listed?
static void *callback(enum mg_event event, struct mg_connection *conn, const struct mg_request_info *request_info)
{
if (event == MG_NEW_REQUEST)
{
// Echo requested URI back to the client
mg_printf(conn, "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n"
"%s", request_info->uri);
return ""; // Mark as processed
}
else
{
return NULL;
}
}