Learning Python networking : a complete guide to build and deploy strong networking capabilities using Python 3.7 and Ansible /: a complete guide to build and deploy strong networking capabilities using Python 3.7 and Ansible. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: José Manuel Ortega, Dr. M.O. Faruque Sarker, Sam Washington.
• Authors: Manuel Ortega, José; Sarker, M. O. Faruque; Washington, Sam
• Contents: Cover; Title Page; Copyright and Credits; About Packt; Contributors; Table of Contents; Preface; Section 1: Introduction to Network and HTTP Programming; Chapter 1: 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 packagesConda; 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 WiresharkFiltering 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; Chapter 2: 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 URLsConsuming 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; Summary; Questions Further readingSection 2: Interacting with APIs, Web Scraping, and Server Scripting; Chapter 3: Application Programming Interface in Action; Technical requirements; Introduction to REST APIs; Advantages of using REST APIs; Introduction to JSON and the JSON module; Encoding and decoding with the JSON package; Using dict with JSON; Interacting with a JSON hybrid-REST API (Twitter); The Twitter API; Registering your application for the Twitter API; Authenticating requests with OAuth; Collecting information from Twitter; A Twitter client; Retrieving tweets from a timeline; Searching tweets
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Birmingham, UK : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 005.133; Python (Computer program language); Computer networks -- Management; Client/server computing; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789952445; 1789952441
• Related ISBNs: 9781789958096
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from title page (Safari, viewed May 8, 2019).
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