Chapter 7. Programming with Sockets
After you have interacted with various clients/servers in Python, you will be keen to create your own custom clients and servers for any protocol of your choice. Python provides a good coverage on the low-level networking interface. It all starts with BSD socket interface. As you can assume, Python has a socket module that gives you the necessary functionality to work with the socket Interface. If you have ever done socket programming in any other language like C/C++, you will love the Python socket module.
In this chapter, we will explore the socket module by creating a diverse range of Python scripts.
The following are the highlights of this chapter:
- Basics of sockets
- Working with TCP sockets
- Working with UDP sockets
- TCP port forwarding
- Non-blocking socket I/O
- Securing sockets with SSL/TLS
- Creating custom SSL client/server
