Network Programming with Perl

This book is excellent. This is one of very few books that the author really takes time, has a good plan to write a book and have good understanding of the subject.I read many computer books that are just repetitive so it can make the books thick enough to look like a 'good book' (May be this is what US raaders like). I try my best to avoid those books. Those books do not say much in hundreds of pages.But this book is not that kind of book. Every pages are worth to read. It is quite easy to follow. (I do know a bit of TCP/IP from reading other books before I read this book.) E.g. Stevens TCP/IP books. Unfortunately he died and he won't be able to update those great books.Some authors are not professional, they just copy here and there. Then they put everything together. Those are terrible books to read. Those terrible books explain some simple concept again and again and take up hundreds of pages that can be done in half of volume. It is not just wasting the readers time (time is money) but also wasting the resource (trees)! Even most college textbooks are that way. Sometimes it is even worst since they know you won't haave much choices!I seldom to give 5 stars. This book does deserve 5 stars.You will enjoy this one if you like networking.

The first thing I want to point out for many readers who may not know this: Lincoln Stein is the author of CGI.pm -- the module that is resonsible for a vast majority of perl powered websites on the internet. Second, Lincoln has contributed enormous amounts of code to the perl community, and I originally bought this book as an insight to the code of his that I have and want to work with further.Let me say that a lot of the book focuses on modules like Net::Telnet and Net::FTP. That isnt particularly useful to me because I have a firm understanding of them already.The real meat of the book, if you ask me, is the discussion of fully multiplexed servers that are able to handle many simultaneous upstreams and downstreams, and do a vast array of things.His code is very clear and concise, as well as commented and explained throughout the text. This is definitely something every perl programmer who writes network maintenance code should have.

I recently took a perl programming class as part of a masters degree program in software engineering. We used the standard camel book (that I also bought through Amazon). Since the course did not really do much with general network programming and since I wanted this type of capability around the office, I purchased this book. In combination with the skills I picked up in the course, I have been using the information in this book for putting together scripts for testing web and ftp capabilities of the product that I support. I have been making good use of it.I would recommend this book, along with the camel book, if you are creating perl scripts for testing/using network connected products.

You'll learn lots if you know only a bit of perl.

As a network engineer, there are certain things I need to get out of the network quickly, without buying loads of software packages. This book gives you all the tools necessary to create your own scripts for managing, gathering information from, and tweaking your network. I never let this book leave my side. Couple the scripts in this book with some PHP/Java/HTML knowledge and you can write your own internal tools (as I have) or add more functionality to open source tools that are out there (as I also have).

Very straight forward introduction to network programming with perl.With this you can learn how to make your program connect to, or have connections froma variety of other programs using different protocols.

It was almost like a new book but old version

Extremely readable code!

If, like me, you do quite a lot of systems administration and network administration then you will find the need to automate often. Being that my platforms of choice are almost always Linux based I can be reasonably assured that Perl will always be present. So developing network management tools in Perl is something I do often and this is the clearest book I have read on the subject. Stein has managed to convey every aspect of the task from the basics of networking to some of the more complex interactions and still find some comprehensive tools and methods to cater for these in Perl. For me this is one book that I will have by my side as I need it. However this is an old book and has never seen an update and misses out some of the newer libraries that can speed up production. This is an omission that dates this book quite considerably. However there is often need to write portable code and not rely on someone to install the libraries needed to use these functions so this remains a very important reference

Für mich ein Zeitlose bestseller ! Gute übersicht sehr strukturiert und gute beispiele!Das Buch hat mir in kompakter Weise einen wirklich fundierten Einblick mit unzähligen Praxisbeispielen geboten.