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Learning Python Network Programming

By : Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Samuel B Washington, Sam Washington
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Learning Python Network Programming

By: Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Samuel B Washington, Sam Washington

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Learning Python Network Programming
Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker | Samuel B Washington | Sam Washington
Jun, 2015 | 320 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Python Network Programming
Learning Python Network Programming
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Network Programming and Python
Network Programming and Python
An introduction to TCP/IP networks
Network programming with Python
Breaking a few eggs
Summary
2
HTTP and Working with the Web
HTTP and Working with the Web
Request and response
Requests with urllib
Response objects
Status codes
Handling problems
HTTP headers
Customizing requests
Content negotiation
User agents
Cookies
Redirects
URLs
HTTP methods
Formal inspection
HTTPS
The Requests library
Summary
3
APIs in Action
APIs in Action
Getting started with XML
The Amazon S3 API
JSON
The Twitter API
HTML and screen scraping
With great power...
Summary
4
Engaging with E-mails
Engaging with E-mails
E-mail terminologies
Sending e-mails with SMTP
Sending e-mails securely with TLS
Retrieving e-mails by using POP3 with poplib
Retrieving e-mails by using IMAP with imaplib
Sending e-mail attachments
Sending e-mails via the logging module
Summary
5
Interacting with Remote Systems
Interacting with Remote Systems
Secure shell – access using Python
Transferring files through SFTP
Transferring files with FTP
Fetching Simple Network Management Protocol data
Reading Light-weight Directory Access Protocol data
Sharing files with SAMBA
Summary
6
IP and DNS
IP and DNS
Retrieving the network configuration of a local machine
Manipulating IP addresses
GeoIP look-ups
NTP clients
Summary
7
Programming with Sockets
Programming with Sockets
Basics of sockets
Working with TCP sockets
Working with UDP sockets
TCP port forwarding
A non-blocking socket I/O
Securing sockets with TLS/SSL
Creating a custom SSL client/server
Summary
8
Client and Server Applications
Client and Server Applications
Client and server
An echo protocol
A simple echo server
A simple echo client
Concurrent I/O
Multithreading and multiprocessing
A multithreaded echo server
Designing a chat server
A chat protocol
Handling data on persistent connections
A multithreaded chat server
A multithreaded chat client
Event-driven servers
A low-level event-driven chat server
Frameworks
An eventlet-based chat server
An asyncio-based chat server
More on frameworks
Taking our servers forward
Summary
9
Applications for the Web
Applications for the Web
What's in a web server?
Python and the Web
Flask – a microframework
Hosting Python web applications
Hosting in practice
Summary
Working with Wireshark
Working with Wireshark
Packet sniffers
Wireshark
Index
Index

Credits

Authors

Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker

Sam Washington

Reviewers

Konstantin Manchev Manchev

Vishrut Mehta

Anhad Jai Singh

Ben Tasker

Ilja Zegars

Commissioning Editor

Kunal Parikh

Acquisition Editor

Kevin Colaco

Content Development Editor

Rohit Singh

Technical Editor

Saurabh Malhotra

Copy Editors

Ameesha Green

Rashmi Sawant

Trishla Singh

Project Coordinator

Izzat Contractor

Proofreaders

Stephen Copestake

Safis Editing

Indexer

Hemangini Bari

Graphics

Abhinash Sahu

Production Coordinator

Shantanu Zagade

Cover Work

Shantanu Zagade

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