Can any one suggest a good networking project in python

Question

I want to do a networking project using python. Can any one suggest a useful project in networking? I am aiming to complete it within next 5 months or so.

Answer 1

Without a doubt, if you want to have a good understanding with implementation, Twisted is the way to go. Just by going through the documentation, you will get lots of ideas for a project.

And also, these Twisted tutorials (introduction) are the best (based on a question I asked earlier on SO)

Answer 2

Take a simple socket or UDP based protocol and write a form of proxy using a subclass of SimpleHTTPServer, which manages sessions, talks to a server and allows web browsers to access the service over HTTP, thereby bringing old technologies to the world of HTML5.

I'll elaborate:

[Web browser with JavaScript*]
              | 
              | (talks over HTTP)
              V
[SimpleHTTPServer in Python*]
              |
              | (Has a pool of)
              |
              +--------- [TCP or UDP client 1*]
              +--------- [TCP or UDP client n*]
                                   |
                                   | (Which all talk to)
                                   V
                          [Some other servers]

* You write this part

The end result being that your web browser can do things that it was never supposed to do.

The simplest example could be something which manages telnet sessions, allowing a JavaScript client to play nethack over telnet. Other ideas along the same vein, Windows file sharing, monitoring performance counters, remote desktop / VNC and so on.