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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.

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
1
Sockets, IPv4, and Simple Client/Server Programming
Sockets, IPv4, and Simple Client/Server Programming
Introduction
Printing your machine's name and IPv4 address
Retrieving a remote machine's IP address
Converting an IPv4 address to different formats
Finding a service name, given the port and protocol
Converting integers to and from host to network byte order
Setting and getting the default socket timeout
Handling socket errors gracefully
Modifying a socket's send/receive buffer sizes
Changing a socket to the blocking/non-blocking mode
Reusing socket addresses
Printing the current time from the internet time server
Writing an SNTP client
Writing a simple TCP echo client/server application
Writing a simple UDP echo client/server application
2
Multiplexing Socket I/O for Better Performance
Multiplexing Socket I/O for Better Performance
Introduction
Using ForkingMixIn in your socket server applications
Using ThreadingMixIn in your socket server applications
Writing a chat server using select.select
Multiplexing a web server using select.epoll
Multiplexing an echo server using Diesel concurrent library
3
IPv6, Unix Domain Sockets, and Network Interfaces
IPv6, Unix Domain Sockets, and Network Interfaces
Introduction
Forwarding a local port to a remote host
Pinging hosts on the network with ICMP
Waiting for a remote network service
Enumerating interfaces on your machine
Finding the IP address for a specific interface on your machine
Finding whether an interface is up on your machine
Detecting inactive machines on your network
Performing a basic IPC using connected sockets (socketpair)
Performing IPC using Unix domain sockets
Finding out if your Python supports IPv6 sockets
Extracting an IPv6 prefix from an IPv6 address
Writing an IPv6 echo client/server
4
Programming with HTTP for the Internet
Programming with HTTP for the Internet
Introduction
Downloading data from an HTTP server
Serving HTTP requests from your machine
Extracting cookie information after visiting a website
Submitting web forms
Sending web requests through a proxy server
Checking whether a web page exists with the HEAD request
Spoofing Mozilla Firefox in your client code
Saving bandwidth in web requests with the HTTP compression
Writing an HTTP fail-over client with resume and partial downloading
Writing a simple HTTPS server code with Python and OpenSSL
Building asynchronous network applications with Twisted
Building asynchronous network applications with Tornado
Building concurrent applications with Tornado Future
5
Email Protocols, FTP, and CGI Programming
Email Protocols, FTP, and CGI Programming
Introduction
Listing the files in a remote FTP server
Uploading a local file to a remote FTP server
Emailing your current working directory as a compressed ZIP file
Downloading your Google email with POP3
Checking your remote email with IMAP
Sending an email with an attachment via Gmail SMTP server
Writing a guestbook for your (Python-based) web server with CGI
Finding the mail server from an email address
Writing a simple SMTP server
Writing a secure SMTP client using TLS
Writing an email client with POP3
6
Programming Across Machine Boundaries
Programming Across Machine Boundaries
Introduction
Executing a remote shell command using telnet
Copying a file to a remote machine by SFTP
Printing a remote machine's CPU information
Installing a Python package remotely
Running a MySQL command remotely
Transferring files to a remote machine over SSH
Configuring Apache remotely to host a website
7
Working with Web Services – XML-RPC, SOAP, and REST
Working with Web Services – XML-RPC, SOAP, and REST
Introduction
Querying a local XML-RPC server
Writing a multithreaded, multicall XML-RPC server
Running an XML-RPC server with a basic HTTP authentication
Collecting some photo information from Flickr using REST
Searching for SOAP methods from an Amazon S3 web service
Searching Amazon for books through the product search API
Creating RESTful web applications with Flask
8
Network Monitoring and Security
Network Monitoring and Security
Introduction
Sniffing packets on your network
Saving packets in the pcap format using the pcap dumper
Adding an extra header in HTTP packets
Scanning the ports of a remote host
Customizing the IP address of a packet
Replaying traffic by reading from a saved pcap file
Scanning the broadcast of packets
9
Network Modeling
Network Modeling
Introduction
Simulating networks with ns-3
Emulating networks with Mininet
Distributed network emulation with MaxiNet
Emulating wireless networks with Mininet-WiFi
Extending Mininet to emulate containers
10
Getting Started with SDN
Getting Started with SDN
Introduction
SDN emulation with Mininet
Developing Software-Defined Networks with OpenDaylight controller
Developing Software-Defined Networks with ONOS controller
Developing Software-Defined Networks with Floodlight controller
Developing Software-Defined Networks with Ryu controller
Developing Software-Defined Networks with POX controller
Developing Software-Defined Networks visually with MiniEdit
11
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)
Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA)
Introduction
Finding DNS names of a network
Finding DNS host information
Finding DNS resource records
Making DNS zone transfer
Querying NTP servers
Connecting to an LDAP server
Making LDAP bind
Reading and writing LDAP
Authenticating REST APIs with Eve
Throttling requests with RequestsThrottler
12
Open and Proprietary Networking Solutions
Open and Proprietary Networking Solutions
Introduction
Configuring Red PNDA
Configuring VMware NSX for vSphere 6.3.2
Configuring Juniper Contrail Server Manager
Configuring OpenContrail controller
Configuring OpenContrail cluster
Interacting with devices running Cisco IOS XR
Collaborating with Cisco Spark API
13
NFV and Orchestration – A Larger Ecosystem
NFV and Orchestration – A Larger Ecosystem
Introduction
Building VNFs with OPNFV
Packet processing with DPDK
Parsing BMP messages with SNAS.io
Controlling drones with a wireless network
Creating PNDA clusters
14
Programming the Internet
Programming the Internet
Introduction
Checking a website status
Benchmarking BGP implementations with bgperf
BGP with ExaBGP
Looking glass implementations with Python
Understanding the internet ecosystem with Python
Establishing BGP connections with yabgp

Checking whether a web page exists with the HEAD request

You would like to check the existence of a web page without downloading the HTML content. This means that we need to send a get HEAD request with a browser client. According to Wikipedia, the HEAD request asks for the response identical to the one that would correspond to a GET request, but without the response body. This is useful for retrieving meta-information written in response headers, without having to transport the entire content.

How to do it...

We would like to send a HEAD request to http://www.python.org. This will not download the content of the home page, rather it checks whether the server returns one of the valid responses, for example, OK, FOUND, MOVED...

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