Sockets programming training course description

A hands on course for programmers using Sockets. It is important to recognise that the course assumes that delegates are already familiar with TCP/IP and Python. Practical exercises follow all the major theory sessions.

What will you learn

• Read Python programs which use Sockets.
• Write Python programs which use Sockets.
• Debug Python programs which use Sockets.

Sockets programming training course details

Sockets programming training course contents

• What is a socket?

Review of IP, ICMP, UDP vs TCP, IP addresses, protocol numbers, ports. API’s, UNIX I/O, sockets. SOCK_STREAM, SOCK_DGRAM.
Hands on Compile and run code.

• The systems calls

Clients and servers, structs, socket(), bind(), connect(), listen(), accept(), send(), recv(), sendto (), recvfrom(), close(), shutdown(), getpeername(), gethostname().
Hands on Walk through of example client and server code.

• First code

TCP connections, passive opens, active opens.
Hands on Write a simple “hello world” server and client.

• Application protocols

User character stream, ASCII turn taking, binary protocols.
Hands on Raw SMTP, Writing a mail client.

• Clients

Concurrency, polling, threads, event driven programming.
Hands on Conferencing application.

• Servers

Concurrency, stateful, stateless. Forks and execs. inetd.
Hands on Running servers with and without inetd, chroot jails, conferencing server modifications.

• Advanced techniques

Blocking, select(), partial send(s). Raw sockets, example sockets using Java, Perl and PHP.
Hands on A broadcast application.

Learning path

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