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Learning Python Networking
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Learning Python Networking

by Sam Washington
June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 18m
English
Packt Publishing
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An echo protocol

Before we write our first client and server programs, we need to decide how they are going to interact with each other, that is we need to design a protocol for their communication.

Our echo server should listen until a client connects and sends a bytes string, then we want it to echo that string back to the client. We only need a few basic rules for doing this. These rules are as follows:

  1. Communication will take place over TCP.
  2. The client will initiate an echo session by creating a socket connection to the server.
  3. The server will accept the connection and listen for the client to send a bytes string.
  4. The client will send a bytes string to the server.
  5. Once it sends the bytes string, the client will listen for a reply from the server ...
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