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Project Summary

Libwebsockets is a lightweight pure C library built to use minimal CPU and memory resources, and provide fast throughput in both directions.

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c html5 server ssl web websocket websockets

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Project Security

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C
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10 Other
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30 Day Summary

Dec 23 2025 — Jan 22 2026

12 Month Summary

Jan 22 2025 — Jan 22 2026
  • 461 Commits
    Up + 355 (334%) from previous 12 months
  • 33 Contributors
    Up + 2 (6%) from previous 12 months