What kind of client\server protocols python supports out of the box?

Question

Without installing third party libraries, what kind of client\server protocols python supports out of the box ?

Answer 1

• Basic Web Protocols:
  • Downloading from http, ftp and file: with urllib, but note that in python 3 that urllib.urlopen has moved to urllib2.urlopen and is deprecated from python 2.6
  • Downloading from https and http with basic proxy and authentication support with urllib2
  • http with httplib, and server modules BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer and CGIHTTPServer, but note that the servers have been moved to http.server in python 3
  • ftp uploading/downloading with ftplib
  • telnet with telnetlib
• Mail Protocols:
  • imap with imaplib
  • pop3 with poplib
  • smtp with smtplib and smtpd
• XML-RPC:
  • XML RPC client with xmlrpclib and server modules SimpleXMLRPCServer and DocXMLRPCServer, but the servers have been moved to xmlrpc.server in python 3
• News Reading Protocols:
  • NNTP with nntplib