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Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

By : José Manuel Ortega, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Sam Washington
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Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

By: José Manuel Ortega, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Sam Washington

Overview of this book

Network programming has always been a demanding task. With full-featured and well-documented libraries all the way up the stack, Python makes network programming the enjoyable experience it should be. Starting with a walk through of today's major networking protocols, through this book, you'll learn how to employ Python for network programming, how to request and retrieve web resources, and how to extract data in major formats over the web. You will utilize Python for emailing using different protocols, and you'll interact with remote systems and IP and DNS networking. You will cover the connection of networking devices and configuration using Python 3.7, along with cloud-based network management tasks using Python. As the book progresses, socket programming will be covered, followed by how to design servers, and the pros and cons of multithreaded and event-driven architectures. You'll develop practical clientside applications, including web API clients, email clients, SSH, and FTP. These applications will also be implemented through existing web application frameworks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: Introduction to Network and HTTP Programming
4
Section 2: Interacting with APIs, Web Scraping, and Server Scripting
9
Section 3: IP Address Manipulation and Network Automation
13
Section 4: Sockets and Server Programming

Reading and interacting with LDAP servers

In this section, you will learn about the LDAP protocol and examine the Python libraries that deal with LDAP packets.

The LDAP protocol

LDAP is a protocol based on the X.500 standard, which is used to access information that is stored through a centralized directory that contains the information of our organization.

LDAP has a client/server architecture, where the server can use a variety of databases to store a directory, each optimized for fast, high-volume read operations. When a client application is connected to an LDAP server, most of the time it will be for queries, although it is also possible to make changes to the directory entries. If the client application is trying to...