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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations |
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Community experience distilled |
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Community experience distilled.
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Copyright -- Credits -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Network Programming and Python -- An introduction to TCP/IP networks -- IP addresses -- Network Interfaces -- Assigning IP addresses -- IP addresses on the Internet -- Packets -- Networks -- Routing with IP -- DNS -- The protocol stack or why the Internet is like a cake -- Layer 4 -- TCP and UDP -- Network ports -- UDP -- TCP -- UDP versus TCP -- Layer 5 -- The application layer -- On to Python! -- Network programming with Python -- Breaking a few eggs -- Taking it from the top -- Downloading an RFC -- Looking deeper -- Programming for TCP/IP networks -- Firewalls -- Network Address Translation -- IPv6 -- Summary -- Chapter 2 : HTTP and Working with the Web -- Request and response -- Requests with urllib -- Response objects -- Status codes -- Handling problems -- HTTP headers -- Customizing requests -- Content compression -- Multiple values -- Content negotiation -- Content types -- User agents -- Cookies -- Cookie handling -- Know your cookies -- Redirects -- URLs -- Paths and relative URLs -- Query strings -- URL encoding -- URLs in summary -- HTTP methods -- The HEAD method -- The POST method -- Formal inspection -- HTTPS -- The Requests library -- Handling errors with Requests -- Summary -- Chapter 3 : APIs in Action -- Getting started with XML -- The XML APIs -- The basics of ElementTree -- Pretty printing -- Element attributes -- Converting to text -- The Amazon S3 API -- Registering with AWS -- Authentication -- Setting up an AWS user -- Regions -- S3 buckets and objects -- An S3 command-line client -- Creating a bucket with the API -- Uploading a file -- Retrieving an uploaded file through a web browser -- Displaying an uploaded file in a web browser -- Downloading a file with the API. |
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Parsing XML and handling errors -- Parsing XML -- Finding elements -- Handling errors -- Further enhancements -- The Boto package -- Wrapping up with S3 -- JSON -- Encoding and decoding -- Using dicts with JSON -- Other object types -- The Twitter API -- A Twitter world clock -- Authentication for Twitter -- Registering your application for the Twitter API -- Authenticating requests -- A Twitter client -- Polling for Tweets -- Processing the tweets -- Rate limits -- Sending a reply -- Final touches -- Taking it further -- Polling and the Twitter streaming APIs -- Alternative oAuth flows -- HTML and screen scraping -- HTML parsers -- Show me the data -- Parsing HTML with lxml -- Zeroing in -- Searching with XPath -- XPath conditions -- Pulling it together -- With great power ... -- Choosing a User Agent -- The Robots.txt file -- Summary -- Chapter 4 : Engaging with E-mails -- E-mail terminologies -- Sending e-mails with SMTP -- Composing an e-mail message -- Sending an e-mail message -- Sending e-mails securely with TLS -- Retrieving e-mails by using POP3 with poplib -- Retrieving e-mails by using IMAP with imaplib -- Sending e-mail attachments -- Sending e-mails via the logging module -- Summary -- Chapter 5 : Interacting with Remote Systems -- Secure shell -- access using Python -- Inspecting the SSH packets -- Transferring files through SFTP -- Transferring files with FTP -- Inspecting FTP packets -- Fetching Simple Network Management Protocol data -- Inspecting SNMP packets -- Reading Light-weight Directory Access Protocol data -- Inspecting LDAP packets -- Sharing files with SAMBA -- Inspecting SAMBA packets -- Summary -- Chapter 6 : IP and DNS -- Retrieving the network configuration of a local machine -- Manipulating IP addresses -- IP network objects -- Network interface objects -- The IP address objects. |
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Planning IP addresses for your local area network -- GeoIP look-ups -- DNS look-ups -- Inspecting DNS client/server communications -- NTP clients -- Inspecting the NTP client/server communication -- Summary -- Chapter 7 : Programming with Sockets -- Basics of sockets -- Working with TCP sockets -- Inspecting the client/server communications -- TCP servers -- Inspecting client/server interaction -- Working with UDP sockets -- TCP port forwarding -- A non-blocking socket I/O -- Securing sockets with TLS/SSL -- Inspecting standard SSL client/server communication -- Creating a custom SSL client/server -- Inspecting interaction between a custom SSL client/server -- Summary -- Chapter 8 : Client and Server Applications -- Client and server -- An echo protocol -- Framing -- A simple echo server -- Handling the received data -- The server itself -- A simple echo client -- Concurrent I/O -- Multithreading and multiprocessing -- Threading and the GIL -- A multithreaded echo server -- Designing a chat server -- A chat protocol -- Handling data on persistent connections -- A multithreaded chat server -- Queues -- Locks -- A multithreaded chat client -- Event-driven servers -- A low-level event-driven chat server -- Frameworks -- An eventlet-based chat server -- An asyncio-based chat server -- More on frameworks -- Taking our servers forward -- Summary -- Chapter 9 : Applications for the Web -- What's in a web server? -- Python and the Web -- Web frameworks -- Flask -- a microframework -- Templating -- Other templating engines -- Adding some style -- A note on security -- XSS -- CSRF -- Finishing up with frameworks -- Hosting Python web applications -- CGI -- Recycling for a better world -- Event-driven servers -- WSGI -- Hosting in practice -- Summary -- Appendix: Working with Wireshark -- Packet sniffers -- Wireshark -- Installation -- Capturing some packets. |
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Filtering -- Inspecting packets -- A versatile tool -- Index. |
| Summary |
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. |
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Python (Computer program language)
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Scripting languages (Computer science)
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Python (Langage de programmation) |
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Langages de script (Informatique) |
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Python (Computer program language) |
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Scripting languages (Computer science) |
| Added Author |
Washington, Sam, author.
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| Added Title |
Utilize Python 3 to get network applications up and running quickly and easily |
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Utilize Python three to get network applications up and running quickly and easily |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Sarker, M.O. Faruque. Learning Python network programming : utilize Python 3 to get network applications up and running quickly and easily. Birmingham, England ; Mumbai, [India] : Packt Publishing, ©2015 xvi, 289 pages Community experience distilled. 9781784396008 |
| ISBN |
9781784391157 (electronic bk.) |
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1784391158 (electronic bk.) |
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1784396001 |
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9781784396008 |
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