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Python Network Programming

By : Abhishek Ratan, Eric Chou, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
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Python Network Programming

By: Abhishek Ratan, Eric Chou, Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker

Overview of this book

This Learning Path highlights major aspects of Python network programming such as writing simple networking clients, creating and deploying SDN and NFV systems, and extending your network with Mininet. You’ll also learn how to automate legacy and the latest network devices. As you progress through the chapters, you’ll use Python for DevOps and open source tools to test, secure, and analyze your network. Toward the end, you'll develop client-side applications, such as web API clients, email clients, SSH, and FTP, using socket programming. By the end of this Learning Path, you will have learned how to analyze a network's security vulnerabilities using advanced network packet capture and analysis techniques. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Practical Network Automation by Abhishek Ratan • Mastering Python Networking by Eric Chou • Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition by Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
Table of Contents (30 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Searching for SOAP methods from an Amazon S3 web service


If you need to interact with a server that implements web services in SOAP, then this recipe can help to get a starting point.

Getting ready

We can use the third-party SOAPpy library for this task. This can be installed by running the following command:

$ sudo pip install SOAPpy

How to do it...

We create a proxy instance and introspect the server methods before we can call them.

In this recipe, let's interact with an Amazon S3 storage service. We have got a test URL for the web services API. An API key is necessary to do this simple task.

Listing 7.5 gives the code for searching for SOAP methods from an Amazon S3 web service, as shown:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# Python Network Programming Cookbook -- Chapter - 7 
# This program requires Python 2.7 or any later version 
# SOAPpy has discontinued its support for Python 3. 
# You may find more information and other potential libraries at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7817303/what-soap-libraries...