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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

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Python Network Programming
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 7. Programming with Sockets

After you have interacted with various clients/servers in Python, you will be keen to create your own custom clients and servers for any protocol of your choice. Python provides a good coverage on the low-level networking interface. It all starts with BSD socket interface. As you can assume, Python has a socket module that gives you the necessary functionality to work with the socket Interface. If you have ever done socket programming in any other language like C/C++, you will love the Python socket module.

In this chapter, we will explore the socket module by creating a diverse range of Python scripts.

The following are the highlights of this chapter:

  • Basics of sockets

  • Working with TCP sockets

  • Working with UDP sockets

  • TCP port forwarding

  • Non-blocking socket I/O

  • Securing sockets with SSL/TLS

  • Creating custom SSL client/server