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Network Programming with Rust

By : Abhishek Chanda

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Network Programming with Rust

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By: Abhishek Chanda

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Overview of this book

Rust is low-level enough to provide fine-grained control over memory while providing safety through compile-time validation. This makes it uniquely suitable for writing low-level networking applications. This book is divided into three main parts that will take you on an exciting journey of building a fully functional web server. The book starts with a solid introduction to Rust and essential networking concepts. This will lay a foundation for, and set the tone of, the entire book. In the second part, we will take an in-depth look at using Rust for networking software. From client-server networking using sockets to IPv4/v6, DNS, TCP, UDP, you will also learn about serializing and deserializing data using serde. The book shows how to communicate with REST servers over HTTP. The final part of the book discusses asynchronous network programming using the Tokio stack. Given the importance of security for modern systems, you will see how Rust supports common primitives such as TLS and public-key cryptography. After reading this book, you will be more than confident enough to use Rust to build effective networking software

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Introduction to Client/Server Networking

A brief history of networks

Layering in networks

Addressing in networks

How IP routing works

How DNS works

Common service models

The network programming interface in Linux

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Introduction to Rust and its Ecosystem

The Rust ecosystem

Getting started with Rust

Introduction to the borrow checker

Generics and the trait system

Error handling

The macro system

Functional features in Rust

Concurrency primitives

Testing

Summary

TCP and UDP Using Rust

A Simple TCP server and client

A Simple UDP server and client

Miscellaneous utilities in std::net

Some related crates

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Data Serialization, Deserialization, and Parsing

Serialization and deserialization using Serde

Parsing textual data

Parsing binary data

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Application Layer Protocols

Introduction to RPC

Introduction to SMTP

Introduction to FTP and TFTP

Summary

Talking HTTP in the Internet

Introducing Hyper

Introducing Rocket

Introducing reqwest

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Asynchronous Network Programming Using Tokio

Looking into the Future

Heading to tokio

Conclusion

Security

Securing the web

Cryptography using ring

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Appendix

Introduction to coroutines and generators

Awaiting the future

Data parallelism

Parsing using Pest

Miscellaneous utilities

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Getting started with Rust

The Rust toolchain installer is available at: https://www.rustup.rs/. The following commands will install all three versions of the toolchain on a system. For the examples in this book, we will use a Linux machine running Ubuntu 16.04. While most of Rust should not depend on the OS, there can be minor differences.

We will point out any strict dependencies on the OS:

# curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh
# source $HOME/.cargo/env
# rustup install nightly beta

We will need to put Cargo's bin directory to our PATH by editing .bashrc. Run the following to do that:

$ echo "export PATH=$HOME/.cargo/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc

A Rust installation comes with a lot of documentation built in; they can be accessed by running the following command. This should open up the documentation in a browser window: