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Learning Python Networking

You're reading from   Learning Python Networking A complete guide to build and deploy strong networking capabilities using Python 3.7 and Ansible

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789958096
Length 490 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker Dr. M. O. Faruque Sarker
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José Manuel Ortega José Manuel Ortega
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Sam Washington Sam Washington
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Introduction to Network and HTTP Programming FREE CHAPTER
2. Network Programming with Python 3. Programming for the Web with HTTP 4. Section 2: Interacting with APIs, Web Scraping, and Server Scripting
5. Application Programming Interface in Action 6. Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup and Scrapy 7. Engaging with Email 8. Interacting with Remote Systems 9. Section 3: IP Address Manipulation and Network Automation
10. Working with IP and DNS 11. Implementing IPv6 and Address Manipulation 12. Performing Network Automation with Python and Ansible 13. Section 4: Sockets and Server Programming
14. Programming with Sockets 15. Designing Servers and Asynchronous Programming 16. Designing Applications on the Web 17. Assessment 18. Another Book You May Enjoy

Understanding the FTP protocol for transferring files

In this section, you will be introduced to the FTP protocol for transferring files and the ftplib package for interacting with Python.

The File Transfer Protocol

The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) protocol allows us to make file transfers through a connection in a network. This is the protocol that we use to connect remotely to servers and manipulate files. Port 21 is usually used.

The protocol design is defined in such a way that it is not necessary for the client and server to run on the same platform; any client and any FTP server can use a different operating system and use the primitives and commands defined in the protocol to transfer files.

To interact with this protocol...

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