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Mastering Python for Networking and Security

You're reading from   Mastering Python for Networking and Security Leverage the scripts and libraries of Python version 3.7 and beyond to overcome networking and security issues

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839217166
Length 538 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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José Manuel Ortega José Manuel Ortega
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Python Environment and System Programming Tools
2. Chapter 1: Working with Python Scripting FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: System Programming Packages 4. Section 2: Network Scripting and Extracting Information from the Tor Network with Python
5. Chapter 3: Socket Programming 6. Chapter 4: HTTP Programming 7. Chapter 5: Connecting to the Tor Network and Discovering Hidden Services 8. Section 3: Server Scripting and Port Scanning with Python
9. Chapter 6: Gathering Information from Servers 10. Chapter 7: Interacting with FTP, SFTP, and SSH Servers 11. Chapter 8: Working with Nmap Scanner 12. Section 4: Server Vulnerabilities and Security in Python Modules
13. Chapter 9: Interacting with Vulnerability Scanners 14. Chapter 10: Identifying Server Vulnerabilities in Web Applications 15. Chapter 11: Security and Vulnerabilities in Python Modules 16. Section 5: Python Forensics
17. Chapter 12: Python Tools for Forensics Analysis 18. Chapter 13: Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers 19. Chapter 14: Cryptography and Steganography 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Building an HTTP client with http.client

Python offers a series of modules designed to create an HTTP client. Python's main library modules are http.client and urllib.request. These modules have different capabilities, but they are useful for most of your web testing. We can also find module requests that provide some improvements over the standard library. To know more about these requests, visit https://docs.python.org/3/library/http.client.html.

So let's understand the http.client module first. The http.client module defines a class that implements the HTTPConnection class. This class accepts a domain and a port as parameters. The domain is required, and the port is optional. An instance of this class represents a transaction with an HTTP server.

Let's demonstrate this with the help of an example in code. You can find the following code in the request_http_client.py file inside the http.client folder:

import http.client
connection = http.client.HTTPConnection...
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