Twisted Network Programming Essentials

Foreword to the First Edtion
Preface

Part 1: An Introduction to Twisted
1. Getting Started
-Installing Twisted
-Installing from Source
-Testing Your Installation
-Using the Twisted Documentation
-Finding Answers to Your Questions

2. Building Basic Clients and Servers
-A TCP Echo Server and Client
-Event-Driven Programming
-The Reactor
-Transports
-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?
-The Truth About addCallbacks
-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
-Handling GET Requests
-Handling POST Requests
-Asynchronous Responses
-More Practice and Next Steps

5. Web Clients
-Basic HTTP Resource Retrieval
-Agent
-More Practice and Next Steps

Part 2: Building Production-Grade Twisted Services
6. Deploying Twisted Applications
-The Twisted Application Infrastructure
-More twistd Examples
-More Practice and Next Steps

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
-More Practice and Next Steps

11. Testing
-Writing and Running Twisted Unit Tests with Trial
-Testing Protocols
-Tests and the Reactor
-More Practice and Next Steps

Part 3: More Protocols and More Practice
12. Twisted Words
-IRC Clients
-IRC Servers
-More Practice and Next Steps

13. Twisted Mail
-SMTP Clients and Servers
-IMAP Clients and Servers
-POP3 Clients and Servers
-More Practice and Next Steps

14. SSH
-SSH Servers
-Using Public Keys for Authentication
-Providing an Administrative Python Shell
-Running Commands on a Remote Server
-More Practice and Next Steps

15. The End
-Contributing to Twisted

Index