Learning Python Networking（Second Edition）

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Learning Python Networking Second Edition

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Section 1: Introduction to Network and HTTP Programming

Network Programming with Python

Technical requirements

An introduction to TCP/IP networking

Introduction to TCP/IP

The protocol stack layer by layer

UDP

TCP

Protocol concepts and the problems that protocols solve

IP addresses and ports

Network interfaces

UDP versus TCP

DHCP

DNS

Addressing

NAT

IPv4

IPv6

Python network programming through libraries

An introduction to the PyPI Python repository

Alternatives to pip for installing packages

Conda

Virtualenv

Pipenv

An introduction to libraries for network programming with Python

Introduction to sockets

Socket module in Python

Client socket methods

Server socket methods

Working with RFC

Extracting RFC information

Downloading an RFC with urllib

Downloading an RFC with requests

Downloading an RFC with the socket module

Interacting with Wireshark with pyshark

Introduction to Wireshark

Wireshark installation

Capturing packets with Wireshark

Network traffic in Wireshark

Color coding in Wireshark

Working with filters in Wireshark

Filtering by protocol name

HTTP objects filter

Capture filters

Display filters

Analyzing networking traffic using the pyshark library

FileCapture and LiveCapture in pyshark

Summary

Questions

Further reading

Programming for the Web with HTTP

Technical requirements

Consuming web services in Python with urllib

Status codes

Handling exceptions

HTTP headers

User agent

Customizing requests with urllib

Getting headers with a proxy

Content types

Extracting links from a URL with urllib

Getting images from a URL with urllib

Working with URLs

Consuming web services in Python with requests

Introduction to requests

Checking HTTP headers

Proxy requests

Get whois information

Working with JSON

Handling forms with urllib and requests with Python 3.7

Handling forms with urllib

Handling forms with requests

Handling cookies with urllib and requests with Python

What are cookies?

Handling cookies with urllib

Cookie handling with requests

Handling HTTP Basic and Digest Authentication with requests

Introduction to authentication mechanisms

HTTP Basic authentication

HTTP Digest authentication