Wiki Parser is a Python program which takes a Wikipedia dump and hosts it locally, offline. To save disk space, Wiki Parser keeps the dump compressed and serves articles to a web browser without decompressing the entire file. I originally created it to serve up Wikipedia articles from a compressed version, but seek times on [...]

Most of the programming I do is packet replication and automation. My workflow is to first analyze the handshakes and protocols in FireFox with the Tamper Data add-on. I use WireShark to nail down the interaction details. Finally, I recreate everything using the Twisted library in Python. Here’s a boilerplate to quickly recreate packets using [...]

Here’s a snippet for uploading a file via FTP using the Twisted Python library available from TwistedMatrix. from twisted.protocols.basic import FileSender from twisted.protocols.ftp import FTPClient from twisted.internet.protocol import ClientCreator from twisted.internet import reactor   def fileTransferFail(failure): failure.printTraceback() reactor.stop()   def cbStore(consumer, filename): fs = FileSender() d = fs.beginFileTransfer(open(filename, ‘r’), consumer) d.addCallback(lambda _: consumer.finish()).addErrback(fileTransferFail) return d [...]