Internet
Internet Protcols
The Internet Protocol (IP) is a protocol used for communicating data across a packet-switched internetwork. IP is a network layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite and is encapsulated in a data link layer protocol (e.g., Ethernet). As a lower layer protocol, IP provides the service of communicable unique global addressing amongst computers.
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.
Refers to all the standards that keep the Internet running. The foundation protocol is TCP/IP, which provides the basic communications mechanism as well as ways to copy files (FTP) and send e-mail (SMTP). The Web added the HTTP protocol for downloading Web pages and HTML, XML and XHTML for formatting them.
Short for Internet Protocol, IP is an address of a computer or other network device on a network using IP or TCP/IP . For example, the number “166.70.10.23″ is an example of such an address. These addresses are similar to addresses used on houses and help data reach its appropriate destination on a network.
The Internet’s open and efficient TCP/IP protocol is the foundation of an inter-networking design has made it the most widely used network protocol in the world. The history of TCP/IP is like the protocol — interdependent design and development conducted by several people and brought together as one.
