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#488 Twisted Network Programming Essentials

Book Notes - Twisted Network Programming Essentials: Event-driven Network Programming with Python by Jessica McKellar, Abe Fettig. First published February 12, 2005. Second Edition 2013.

Notes

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Contents

Part I. Getting Started

  • 1 - Getting Started
    • Installing Twisted
      • Installation on Linux
      • Installation on Windows
      • Installation on OS X
    • Installing from Source
      • Required Dependencies
      • Installing Twisted from a Release Tarball
      • Installing Twisted from a Source Checkout
      • Installing Optional Dependencies from Sour
    • Testing Your Installation
    • Using the Twisted Documentation
      • API Documentation
      • Subproject Documentation
    • Finding Answers to Your Questions
      • Mailing Lists
      • IRC Channels
      • Stack Overflow
      • Twisted Blogs
  • 2- Building Basic Clients and Servers
    • A TCP Echo Server and Client
    • Event-Driven Programming
    • The Reactor
    • Transports
    • Protocols
      • Protocol Factories
      • Decoupling Transports and Protocols
    • A TCP Quote Server and Client
    • Protocol State Machines
    • More Practice and Next Steps
  • 3 - Writing Asynchronous Code with Deferreds
    • What Deferreds Do and Don’t Do
    • The Structure of a Deferred Object
    • Callback Chains and Using Deferreds in the Reactor
    • Practice: What Do These Deferred Chains Do?
      • Exercise 1
      • Exercise 2
      • Exercise 3
      • Exercise 4
      • Exercise 5
      • Exercise 6
    • The Truth About add Callbacks
      • Exercise 7
      • Exercise 8
    • Key Facts About Deferreds
    • Summary of the Deferred API
    • More Practice and Next Steps
  • 4 - Web Servers
    • Responding to HTTP Requests: A Low-Level Review
      • The Structure of an HTTP Request
      • Parsing HTTP Requests
    • Handling GET Requests
      • Serving Static Content
      • Serving Dynamic Content
      • Dynamic Dispatch
    • Handling POST Requests
      • A Minimal POST Example
    • Asynchronous Responses
    • More Practice and Next Steps
  • 5 - Web Clients
    • Basic HTTP Resource Retrieval
      • Printing a Web Resource
      • Downloading a Web Resource
    • Agent
      • Requesting Resources with Agent
      • Retrieving Response Metadata
      • POSTing Data with Agent
    • More Practice and Next Steps

Part II. Building Production-Grade Twisted Services

  • 6 - Deploying Twisted Applications
    • The Twisted Application Infrastructure
      • Services
      • Applications
      • TAC Files
      • twistd
      • Plugins
    • More twistd Examples
    • More Practice and Next Steps
      • Suggested Exercises
  • 7 - Logging
    • Basic In-Application Logging
    • twistd Logging
    • Custom Loggers
    • Key Facts and Caveats About Logging
  • 8 - Databases
    • Nonblocking Database Queries
    • More Practice and Next Steps
  • 9 - Authentication
    • The Components of Twisted Cred
    • Twisted Cred: An Example
    • Credentials Checkers
    • Authentication in Twisted Applications
    • More Practice and Next Steps
  • 10 - Threads and Subprocesses
    • Threads
    • Subprocesses
      • Running a Subprocess and Getting the Result
      • Custom Process Protocols
    • More Practice and Next Steps
  • 11 - Testing
    • Writing and Running Twisted Unit Tests with Trial
    • Testing Protocols
    • Tests and the Reactor
      • Testing Deferreds
      • Testing the Passage of Time
    • More Practice and Next Steps

Part III. More Protocols and More Practice

  • 12 - Twisted Words
    • IRC Clients
    • IRC Servers
    • More Practice and Next Steps
  • 13 - Twisted Mail…
    • SMTP Clients and Servers
      • The SMTP Protocol
      • Sending Emails Using SMTP
      • SMTP Servers
      • Storing Mail
    • IMAP Clients and Servers
      • IMAP Servers
      • IMAP Clients
    • POP3 Clients and Servers
      • POP3 Servers
    • More Practice and Next Steps
  • 14 - SSH
    • SSH Servers
      • A Basic SSH Server
    • Using Public Keys for Authentication
    • Providing an Administrative Python Shell
    • Running Commands on a Remote Server
      • SSH Clients
    • More Practice and Next Steps
  • 15 - The End.

Getting the Example Source

git clone https://github.com/jesstess/twisted-network-programming-essentials-examples.git example_source

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