Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Building a Twisted client

For creating a Twisted client, we can follow the same programming model we used for creating a server with Twisted. Basically, we need to define a protocol type, a factory, and a reactor.

To create clients with Twisted, we can use the TCP4ClientEndpoint class to establish a connection with the server. We will use the connectProtocol method and pass through the host and the port as parameters. There are multiple classes and utilities to make connections to remote servers using Twisted. The use of such classes depends on the protocol that's used for communication with the server.

You can find the following code in the twisted_basic_client.py file:

#!/usr/bin/python3from twisted.internet import reactorfrom twisted.internet.protocol ...