Building a Web Client in Python

Now, all of the data is contained within buff. All we need to do is step through it, printing as we go.

 for line in buff: print line 

Now, you can save the program and call it with the name of the server and the name of the file you want to see. For example, try:

python simple_web_client.py python.about.com /

If you run your own server, you can access your web directory as follows:

python simple_web_client.py localhost / What you will receive is the raw HTML of the index file. You can then process it as plain text or parse it with urllib or urllib2.

• Network Programming is not Voodoo
• Programming Networks in Python: the Basics
• Importing Modules for Network Programming in Python
• Giving Python the Internet Protocol Information
• Creating a Socket With Python
• Connecting Sockets With Python
• Python Asks the Web Server for the File
• Printing the Web Page With Python
• The Python Code for a Simple Web Client Program