Network Programming

We take a quick look at how data moves across the network using the HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) and how we write programs to read data across the network.

Slides

• Pythonlearn-12-HTTP.pptx

Videos

• Networks and Packets - Part 1 (7:44)
• Servers and Protocols - Part 2 (9:21)
• Using HTTP in Python - Part 3 (4:36)
• Worked Example: Sockets (6:12)
• Characters, ASCII, and Unicode - Part 4 (11:15)
• Using urllib in Python - Part 5 (5:31)
• Worked Example: Urllib (3:40)
• Beautiful Soup in Python - Part 6 (6:40)
• Worked Example: BeautifulSoup (9:21)

References

• Chapter 12: Networked Programs
• ASCII Coding and Binary
• Characters, Symbols and the Unicode Miracle - Computerphile

Discussions

• Network Programming (Login Required)
  

Tools

• Autograder: Request-Response Cycle (Login Required)
  
• Autograder: Scraping HTML Data with BeautifulSoup (Login Required)
  
• Autograder: Following Links with BeautifulSoup (Login Required)
  
• Quiz: HTTP (Login Required)