basic socket programming question

[Guest_imported]

i am writing a network mon app in python. I am new to socket programming and would like to know first how to just make a basic connection on a given port. for instance, i want to be able to open a connection to port 80 then close it.

can someone point me in the right direction or give up some sample code? thanks in advance.

 

[sebsauvage]

Here's an example from the Python documentation.

It's a server and a client which dialog through port 50007 using sockets.
You can easily change the port number of course.

http://python.org/doc/current/lib/socket-example.html

This is basic socket programming, but you can be relieved of some tedious tasks by using more advanced servers, such as : socketserver, BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer, medusa, etc.