Programming the Network with Perl

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