Python Network Programming

How to do it...

Let us create a local port forwarding script that will redirect all traffic received at port 8800 to the Google home page (http://www.google.com). We can pass the local and remote host as well as port number to this script. For the sake of simplicity, let's only specify the local port number as we are aware that the web server runs on port 80.

Listing 3.1 shows a port forwarding example, as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python # Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition -- Chapter - 3 # This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and Python 3.5.2. # It may run on any other version with/without modifications. import argparse LOCAL_SERVER_HOST = 'localhost' REMOTE_SERVER_HOST = 'www.google.com' BUFSIZE = 4096 import asyncore ...