Internet Protocols and Support
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The modules described in this chapter implement Internet protocols and
support for related technology.  They are all implemented in Python.
Most of these modules require the presence of the system-dependent
module "socket", which is currently supported on most popular
platforms.  Here is an overview:

* "webbrowser" — Convenient Web-browser controller

  * Browser Controller Objects

* "wsgiref" — WSGI Utilities and Reference Implementation

  * "wsgiref.util" – WSGI environment utilities

  * "wsgiref.headers" – WSGI response header tools

  * "wsgiref.simple_server" – a simple WSGI HTTP server

  * "wsgiref.validate" — WSGI conformance checker

  * "wsgiref.handlers" – server/gateway base classes

  * Examples

* "urllib" — URL handling modules

* "urllib.request" — Extensible library for opening URLs

  * Request Objects

  * OpenerDirector Objects

  * BaseHandler Objects

  * HTTPRedirectHandler Objects

  * HTTPCookieProcessor Objects

  * ProxyHandler Objects

  * HTTPPasswordMgr Objects

  * HTTPPasswordMgrWithPriorAuth Objects

  * AbstractBasicAuthHandler Objects

  * HTTPBasicAuthHandler Objects

  * ProxyBasicAuthHandler Objects

  * AbstractDigestAuthHandler Objects

  * HTTPDigestAuthHandler Objects

  * ProxyDigestAuthHandler Objects

  * HTTPHandler Objects

  * HTTPSHandler Objects

  * FileHandler Objects

  * DataHandler Objects

  * FTPHandler Objects

  * CacheFTPHandler Objects

  * UnknownHandler Objects

  * HTTPErrorProcessor Objects

  * Examples

  * Legacy interface

  * "urllib.request" Restrictions

* "urllib.response" — Response classes used by urllib

* "urllib.parse" — Parse URLs into components

  * URL Parsing

  * URL parsing security

  * Parsing ASCII Encoded Bytes

  * Structured Parse Results

  * URL Quoting

* "urllib.error" — Exception classes raised by urllib.request

* "urllib.robotparser" —  Parser for robots.txt

* "http" — HTTP modules

  * HTTP status codes

* "http.client" — HTTP protocol client

  * HTTPConnection Objects

  * HTTPResponse Objects

  * Examples

  * HTTPMessage Objects

* "ftplib" — FTP protocol client

  * FTP Objects

  * FTP_TLS Objects

* "poplib" — POP3 protocol client

  * POP3 Objects

  * POP3 Example

* "imaplib" — IMAP4 protocol client

  * IMAP4 Objects

  * IMAP4 Example

* "smtplib" — SMTP protocol client

  * SMTP Objects

  * SMTP Example

* "uuid" — UUID objects according to **RFC 4122**

  * Example

* "socketserver" — A framework for network servers

  * Server Creation Notes

  * Server Objects

  * Request Handler Objects

  * Examples

    * "socketserver.TCPServer" Example

    * "socketserver.UDPServer" Example

    * Asynchronous Mixins

* "http.server" — HTTP servers

  * Security Considerations

* "http.cookies" — HTTP state management

  * Cookie Objects

  * Morsel Objects

  * Example

* "http.cookiejar" — Cookie handling for HTTP clients

  * CookieJar and FileCookieJar Objects

  * FileCookieJar subclasses and co-operation with web browsers

  * CookiePolicy Objects

  * DefaultCookiePolicy Objects

  * Cookie Objects

  * Examples

* "xmlrpc" — XMLRPC server and client modules

* "xmlrpc.client" — XML-RPC client access

  * ServerProxy Objects

  * DateTime Objects

  * Binary Objects

  * Fault Objects

  * ProtocolError Objects

  * MultiCall Objects

  * Convenience Functions

  * Example of Client Usage

  * Example of Client and Server Usage

* "xmlrpc.server" — Basic XML-RPC servers

  * SimpleXMLRPCServer Objects

    * SimpleXMLRPCServer Example

  * CGIXMLRPCRequestHandler

  * Documenting XMLRPC server

  * DocXMLRPCServer Objects

  * DocCGIXMLRPCRequestHandler

* "ipaddress" — IPv4/IPv6 manipulation library

  * Convenience factory functions

  * IP Addresses

    * Address objects

    * Conversion to Strings and Integers

    * Operators

      * Comparison operators

      * Arithmetic operators

  * IP Network definitions

    * Prefix, net mask and host mask

    * Network objects

    * Operators

      * Logical operators

      * Iteration

      * Networks as containers of addresses

  * Interface objects

    * Operators

      * Logical operators

  * Other Module Level Functions

  * Custom Exceptions
