Table of Contents

* Introduction to Client/Server Networking * UDP * TCP * Socket Names and DNS * Network Data and Network Errors * TLS and SSL * Server Architecture * Caches, Message Queues, and Map-Reduce * HTTP * Screen Scraping * Web Applications * E-mail Composition and Decoding * SMTP * POP * IMAP * Other technologies: Telnet, SSH, and FTP * RPC * System Administration

About the Author

Brandon Rhodes is a consulting programmer who also teaches the Python language professionally for organizations that are adding the language to their tool set. He has spoken at PyOhio; at PyGotham; at national PyCon conferences in Canada, Ireland, and Poland; and at Django conferences in Portland, Wales, and Warsaw, where he was delighted at the creativity of the organizers, who rented a circus tent for the occasion. He will chair the flagship PyCon North America conference in Portland in 2016–2017. Brandon is interested in how ideas like the Clean Architecture can help programmers organize code more effectively and in what we can learn from writers in other fields about offering kind and actionable critiques of each other’s work. He currently lives in tiny Bluffton, Ohio, with his wife Jackie and their two cats.