So, I wanted to see what a small web server was like, and I discovered mongoose, a nice, small, simple web server for static sites. Then the horrors arose when I tried downloading it. I tried grabbing it from this site: http://cesanta.com/mongoose.shtml, and found that Chrome always complained about some network error. I then had a friend try downloading it, thinking it was a bad link, but he downloaded it just fine. So I thought, okay whatever, I'll have him transfer it to a flash drive and I can get it off there. I then discovered that I can't get the file off the flash drive. The Windows file copy dialogue would get hung up on 75%, and then suddenly jump to 100% and the file would flicker in the folder, and then disappear. So, I was like okay, maybe I don't need it on my computer, and I'll jut run it off my flash drive, so I ran it, and windows complained saying that the file didn't exist, and suddenly the file on the flash drive disappeared.
Why does this file hate me?
Is there something wrong with my file system?
Is it an issue with the executable itself?
My friend and I are both running Windows 8.1
I can download other files just fine.
The file can be downloaded from https://mongoose.ws/binary/