Martin, if you are working in a constrained environment, then you are probably better off using something like libmicrohttpd[1] or libevent's evhttp interface[2]. Apache has a rather heavy resource footprint.
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/libmicrohttpd/ [2] http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/doxygen/evhttp_8h.html
