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Network Programming with Perl
By Lincoln  D.  Stein
   
Publisher : Addison Wesley
Pub Date : December 15, 2000
ISBN : 0-201-61571-1
Pages : 784
Slots : 1    


Network Programming with Perl is a comprehensive, example-rich guide to creating network-based applications using the Perl programming language. Among its many capabilities, modern Perl provides a straightforward and powerful interface to TCP/IP, and this book shows you how to leverage these capabilities to create robust, maintainable , and efficient custom client/server applications.

The book quickly moves beyond the basics to focus on high-level, application programming concepts, tools, and techniques. Readers will find a review of basic networking concepts and Perl fundamentals, including Perl's I/O functions, process model, and object-oriented extensions. In addition, the book examines a collection of the best third-party modules in the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network, including existing network protocols for e-mail, news, and the Web.

The core of the book focuses on methods and alternatives for designing TCP-based client/server systems, and more advanced techniques for specialized applications. Some of the specific topics covered are: The Berkeley Sockets API; The TCP protocol and the IO::Socket API; FTP file-sharing service; The Net::Telnet module for adapting clients to interactive network services; SMTP, including how to create and send e- mails with multimedia attachments; HTTP and the LWP module for communicating with Web servers; Bulletproofing servers; Broadcasting and multicasting; and Interprocess communication with UNIX domain sockets.

Useful, working programs demonstrate ideas and techniques in action, including a real-time chat and messaging system, a program for processing e-mail containing MIME attachments, a program for mirroring an FTP site, and a Web robot.

Network Programming with Perl focuses on TCP/IP rather than just the common Web protocols. Modeled after the critically acclaimed TCP/IP Illustrated by W. Richard Stevens, this book achieves a level of detail far superior to most. It is an essential resource for network administrators and Perl programmers who are creating network applications.





Network Programming with Perl
Network Programming with Perl
ISBN: 0201615711
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2000
Pages: 173

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