Programming the Network with Perl

1. Meet Perl
Perl's Default Behaviour
Using Variables in Perl
Controlling Flow
Boolean in Perl
Perl Operators
Subroutines
Perl I/O
Packages, Modules and Objects
More Perl
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2. Snooping
Thank You, Tim Potter
Preparing to Snoop
Building Low-Level Snooping Tools
Snooping IP Datagrams
Transport Snoopers
The Network Debugger
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3. Sockets
Clients and Servers
Transport Services
Introducing the Perl Socket API
Socket Support Subroutines
Simple UDP Clients and Servers
Genericity and Robustness
UDP is Unreliable
Sending and Receiving with UDP
Dealing with Deadlock
TCP Clients and Servers
A Common TCP Gotcha
More TCP Socket Communication
The Concurrent Syntax Checker
Object-Oriented Sockets
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4. Protocols
Gotcha!
Working with the Web
The World's Worst Web Browser
HTTP Status Codes
It's the Gisle and Graham Show!
The Library for WWW Access in Perl
The LWPwwwb Program
Doing More with LWPwwwb
Building a Custom Web Server
The libnet Library
Email Enabling simplehttpd
Other Networking Add-on Modules
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5. Management
Simple Management with ICMP
Doing the Ping Thing
Doing the Net: Ping Thing
Tracing Routes
Not So Simple Management with SNMP
The SNMP Management Framework
Managed Data
The SNMP Protocol
The Net: SNMP Module
Working with Net: SNMP
What's Up?
Setting MIB-II Data
IP Router Mapping
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6. Mobile Agents
What is a Mobile Agent?
Mobile-Agent Examples
Mobile-Agent Advantages/Disavantages
Perl Agents
The Agent.pm Module
Ooooh, Objects!
The Default Mobile Agent
A Launching Mobile-Agent Environment
A One-Shot Location
Relocating to Multiple Locations
The Mobile-Agent multiwho
The Mobile-Agent ipdetermine
The Cloning Mobile-Agent ipdetermine
Other Perl Agent Examples
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Appendices
Index