The main design goals are the ease of use and the ability to embed. Ideal for personal use, Web developers.

Small, Fast, No bloat, no crap, Run-and-it-works thing. GET, POST, HEAD; optionally PUT, DELETE methods CGI, SSL, Digest (MD5) auth, resumed download, inetd support; Standard logging (combined format); Very simple and clean embedded API; dietlibc, uClibc friendly.