I am sending data via pickle and socket as found here: Socket Programming in Python using Pickle. I am running 2 scripts with different environments and they are communicating with each other. I plan to have this not connected to the network. i.e. no wifi. As I understand it, since they are connected on the same pc, they should still work right or do I need wifi?
P.S. I am not asking for any code, it is done, working, all I am asking is that would something like this work without internet connection.
Yes, you can absolutely use Unix domain sockets or even local servers on the same computer and it should work without a connection to the broader internet.
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I have a client based application written in python. It is using some sensitive api's. A way to prevent people to find these would be to check for known debbuger processes running, but this can easily be tricked by renaming the process or runnning the script on a pc, getting debugged by an external device checking the traffic.
Would there be a way to detect if the internet connection is running trough a normal ip and not a proxy or the internet traffic is being watched?
I not looking for a specific pythonic way, just a general solution that I can convert into a python script later.
I am making a Python application that requires the server to have an FTP port forwarded to his computer(a Rasberry PI3) in order to communicate with client. The current implementation works quite great, yet the only thing is that the person who's running the file must forward the port to the local IP manually. I want to automate this. I have serached a lot but i didnt find anything.
I'm using PyZMQ for IPC (over TCP) on Windows 10, as part of an automated updater. I have noticed that on some computers, a firewall prompt appears to select if it can use public or private internet, despite the fact that it makes no connections to the internet - only to localhost.
This PyInstaller-packaged script is launched by a user-land script.
So:
Script launches my PyInstaller-packaged script->
Script uses pyzmq strictly to connect to localhost->
Windows prompts how it should be allowed through firewall
This prompt doesn't stop the program, but I don't want users to see that and wonder what virus they might have.
This is the code that supposedly triggers it:
sckt = self.zmq_context.socket(zmq.REQ)
sckt.connect('tcp://localhost:%s' % updater_shared_port)
Is there anything I can do to stop that pop-up from Windows Firewall?
Thanks!
Yes, there is something:
may implement the connection by some other than tcp:// transport class.
ZeroMQ can help you build your ideas via smart transports{ ipc:// | inproc:// | vmci:// } given you need not assemble/disassemble the full-height-L3-ISO-OSI stack to reach a counterparty, hosted on the same localhost.
The firewall could be configured to allow your programmes to run unhindered. That might be a nuissance to do by hand. There's probably a way to have an installer configure the firewall appropriately, but that'll be a ton of work to set up.
On the off-chance that it's the binding end that's the causing the pop up (not the connecting end as you suggest), apparently one can bind a zmq socket to a particular interface. This is done with a connection string such as zmq_bind(socket, "tcp://127.0.0.1:5555"); This will clamp the socket to the loopback, which may well not trouble the firewall at all. zmq_bind(socket, "tcp://*:5555) will open a socket on all interfaces, including any Internet facing interfaces, which should certainly grab the attention of the firewall. If you've not already tried that, might be worth a quick go.
I'm new to coding in Python and what motivates me to start coding is the idea of writing a piece of software that will connect to a proxy server via SSH and then once connected will route all network traffic of the system trough it, seamlessly to the user.
I am actually using the paramiko module to connect to the server and it works fine, but now I would like to know if there is some way to make the system change its socks proxy configuration so I can route the traffic to the proxy, on a way the user doesn't need to do anything. Is there any existing module that will help on this task ?
Thank you.
You can see the existing project sshuttle, it transfers all traffic over ssh.
If Python, if you are developing a system service that communicates with user applications through sockets, and you want to treat sockets connected by different users differently, how would you go about that?
If I know that all connecting sockets will be from localhost, is there a way to lookup through the OS (either on windows or linux) which user is making the connection request?
On Linux and other unixy system, you can use the ident service.
I'm not sure if Windows offers something similar.
Unfortunately, at this point in time the python libraries don't support the usual SCM_CREDENTIALS method of passing credentials along a Unix socket.
You'll need to use an "ugly" method as described in another answer to find it.
On Linux you can get the source (i.e. client-side) port of the socket and parse the output of the lsof(8) utility searching for who is using that port.
Here's the manual page.