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Python Network Programming Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Gary Berger, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
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Python Network Programming Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Pradeeban Kathiravelu, Gary Berger, Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker

Overview of this book

Python Network Programming Cookbook - Second Edition highlights the major aspects of network programming in Python, starting from writing simple networking clients to developing and deploying complex Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) systems. It creates the building blocks for many practical web and networking applications that rely on various networking protocols. It presents the power and beauty of Python to solve numerous real-world tasks in the area of network programming, network and system administration, network monitoring, and web-application development. In this edition, you will also be introduced to network modelling to build your own cloud network. You will learn about the concepts and fundamentals of SDN and then extend your network with Mininet. Next, you’ll find recipes on Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) and open and proprietary SDN approaches and frameworks. You will also learn to configure the Linux Foundation networking ecosystem and deploy and automate your networks with Python in the cloud and the Internet scale. By the end of this book, you will be able to analyze your network security vulnerabilities using advanced network packet capture and analysis techniques.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Authenticating REST APIs with Eve

Eve is a REST API server built in Python. We will test how to use Eve REST API framework with BasicAuth, global authentication. Eve can also be started without any authentication at all, as a simple REST API server. This recipe is a simple demonstration of serving the entire web server. However, Eve provides more sophisticated and more role-based access control that protects certain APIs with roles for the users.

The server is started with a username and password, and the client passes on the base64 encode of the format username:password to the server to get authenticated.

Getting ready

First install Eve using Python:

$ sudo pip install eve

This will install Eve, along with its dependencies...