Description
Book SynopsisThis second edition of
Foundations of Python Network Programming targets Python 2.5 through Python 2.7, the most popular production versions of the language. Python has made great strides since Apress released the first edition of this book back in the days of Python 2.3. The advances required new chapters to be written from the ground up, and others to be extensively revised.
You will learn fundamentals like IP, TCP, DNS and SSL by using working Python programs; you will also be able to familiarize yourself with infrastructure components like memcached and message queues. You can also delve into network server designs, and compare threaded approaches with asynchronous event-based solutions.
But the biggest change is this edition''s expanded treatment of the web. The HTTP protocol is covered in extensive detail, with each feature accompanied by sample Python code. You can use your HTTP protocol expertise by studying an entire chapter on screen scraping and you can
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Client/Server Networking
- UDP
- TCP
- Socket Names and DNS
- Network Data and Network Errors
- TLS and SSL
- Server Architecture
- Caches, Message Queues, and Map-Reduce
- HTTP
- Screen Scraping
- Web Applications
- E-mail Composition and Decoding
- SMTP
- POP
- IMAP
- Telnet and SSH
- FTP
- RPC
