- Python Network Programming Cookbook
- Table of Contents
- Python Network Programming Cookbook
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. 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 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
- 3. 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
- 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
- 5. E-mail Protocols, FTP, and CGI Programming
- Introduction
- 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
- Introduction
- 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
- 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
- 8. 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 Google for custom information
- Searching Amazon for books through product search API
- 9. 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
- Index
Author
Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
Reviewers
Ahmed Soliman Farghal
Vishrut Mehta
Tom Stephens
Deepak Thukral
Acquisition Editors
Aarthi Kumarswamy
Owen Roberts
Content Development Editor
Arun Nadar
Technical Editors
Manan Badani
Shashank Desai
Copy Editors
Janbal Dharmaraj
Deepa Nambiar
Karuna Narayanan
Project Coordinator
Sanchita Mandal
Proofreaders
Faye Coulman
Paul Hindle
Joanna McMahon
Indexer
Mehreen Deshmukh
Production Coordinator
Nilesh R. Mohite
Cover Work
Nilesh R. Mohite
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