Introduction to Python (by Ilan Schnell)

Network programming in python

• Python has a variety of modules available for network programming.

• More information about programming IP Sockets.

Simple HTTP Server

• We implement HTTP ourselves on top of TCP.

• We make use of the module SocketServer.

What our server does?

• Handle the HTTP request by sending back an HTML page.

• This HTML page contains:

  • IP address and port number of the client connecting.

  • The original HTTP request.