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Python for Secret Agents

You're reading from   Python for Secret Agents Analyze, encrypt, and uncover intelligence data using Python, the essential tool for all aspiring secret agents

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Published in Aug 2014
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ISBN-13 9781783980420
Length 216 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Steven F. Lott Steven F. Lott
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Accessing data from the Internet

The WWW and Internet are based on a series of agreements called Request for Comments (RFC). The RFCs define the standards and protocols to interconnect different networks, that is, the rules for internetworking. The WWW is defined by a subset of these RFCs that specifies the protocols, behaviors of hosts and agents (servers and clients), and file formats, among other details.

In a way, the Internet is a controlled chaos. Most software developers agree to follow the RFCs. Some don't. If their idea is really good, it can catch on, even though it doesn't precisely follow the standards. We often see this in the way some browsers don't work with some websites. This can cause confusion and questions. We'll often have to perform both espionage and plain old debugging to figure out what's available on a given website.

Python provides a variety of modules that implement the software defined in the Internet RFCs. We'll look at some of...

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