Python Networking: IP Header

In the previous installment we talked about a basic network connection. Now when sending something to a server it's not just the data that's being sent, but also metadata about the data. This is used so routers know where to direct network traffic (or in some cases block it). In this article we'll look at the part of a network transmission that deals with IP information.

But First Some Binary

Binary is a sequence of 1s and 0s which represent …

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