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Learning Python Networking

Learning Python Networking

By : Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Samuel B Washington, Sam Washington
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Learning Python Networking

Learning Python Networking

3.7 (7)
By: Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker, Samuel B Washington, Sam Washington
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Overview of this book

If you're a Python developer or a system administrator with Python experience and you're looking to take your first steps in network programming, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Python is assumed.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. Network Programming and Python
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1. Network Programming and Python
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An introduction to TCP/IP networks
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Network programming with Python
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Breaking a few eggs
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Summary
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2. HTTP and Working with the Web
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2. HTTP and Working with the Web
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Request and response
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Requests with urllib
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Response objects
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Status codes
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Handling problems
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HTTP headers
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Customizing requests
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Content negotiation
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User agents
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Cookies
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Redirects
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URLs
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HTTP methods
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Formal inspection
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HTTPS
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The Requests library
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3. APIs in Action
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3. APIs in Action
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Getting started with XML
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The Amazon S3 API
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JSON
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The Twitter API
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HTML and screen scraping
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With great power...
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4. Engaging with E-mails
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4. Engaging with E-mails
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E-mail terminologies
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Sending e-mails with SMTP
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Sending e-mails securely with TLS
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Retrieving e-mails by using POP3 with poplib
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Retrieving e-mails by using IMAP with imaplib
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Sending e-mail attachments
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Sending e-mails via the logging module
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5. Interacting with Remote Systems
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5. Interacting with Remote Systems
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Secure shell – access using Python
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Transferring files through SFTP
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Transferring files with FTP
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Fetching Simple Network Management Protocol data
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Reading Light-weight Directory Access Protocol data
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Sharing files with SAMBA
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6. IP and DNS
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6. IP and DNS
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Retrieving the network configuration of a local machine
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Manipulating IP addresses
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GeoIP look-ups
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NTP clients
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7. Programming with Sockets
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7. Programming with Sockets
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Basics of sockets
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Working with TCP sockets
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Working with UDP sockets
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TCP port forwarding
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A non-blocking socket I/O
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Securing sockets with TLS/SSL
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Creating a custom SSL client/server
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8. Client and Server Applications
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8. Client and Server Applications
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Client and server
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An echo protocol
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A simple echo server
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A simple echo client
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Concurrent I/O
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Multithreading and multiprocessing
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A multithreaded echo server
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Designing a chat server
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A chat protocol
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Handling data on persistent connections
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A multithreaded chat server
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A multithreaded chat client
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Event-driven servers
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A low-level event-driven chat server
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Frameworks
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An eventlet-based chat server
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An asyncio-based chat server
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More on frameworks
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Taking our servers forward
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9. Applications for the Web
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9. Applications for the Web
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What's in a web server?
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Python and the Web
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Flask – a microframework
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Hosting Python web applications
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Hosting in practice
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A. Working with Wireshark
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A. Working with Wireshark
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Packet sniffers
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Wireshark
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Index
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Index

Chapter 2. HTTP and Working with the Web

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is probably the most widely-used application layer protocol. It was originally developed to allow academics to share HTML documents. Nowadays, it is used as the core protocol of innumerable applications across the Internet, and it is the principle protocol of the World Wide Web.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • The HTTP protocol structure
  • Using Python for talking to services through HTTP
  • Downloading files
  • HTTP capabilities, such as compression and cookies
  • Handling errors
  • URLs
  • The Python standard library urllib package
  • Kenneth Reitz's third-party Requests package

The urllib package is the recommended Python standard library package for HTTP tasks. The standard library also has a low-level module called http. Although this offers access to almost all aspects of the protocol, it has not been designed for everyday use. The urllib package has a simpler interface, and it deals with everything...

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