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Cover
Table of Contents
Python Network Programming Cookbook
Python Network Programming Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
1. Sockets, IPv4, and Simple Client/Server Programming
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 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 a SNTP client
Writing a simple echo client/server application
2. Multiplexing Socket I/O for Better Performance
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
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
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
5. E-mail Protocols, FTP, and CGI Programming
Listing the files in a remote FTP server
Uploading a local file to a remote FTP server
E-mailing your current working directory as a compressed ZIP file
Downloading your Google e-mail with POP3
Checking your remote e-mail with IMAP
Sending an e-mail with an attachment via Gmail SMTP server
Writing a guestbook for your (Python-based) web server with CGI
6. Screen-scraping and Other Practical Applications
Searching for business addresses using the Google Maps API
Searching for geographic coordinates using the Google Maps URL
Searching for an article in Wikipedia
Searching for Google stock quote
Searching for a source code repository at GitHub
Reading news feed from BBC
Crawling links present in a web page
7. Programming Across Machine Boundaries
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
8. Working with Web Services – XML-RPC, SOAP, and REST
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 Google for custom information
Searching Amazon for books through product search API
9. Network Monitoring and Security
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
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