For the following code, each time I connect to the server, I see two connections per each browser request. What is wrong and how to fix this?
$ sudo python3 host.py
Connected by ('127.0.0.1', 60810)
Connected by ('127.0.0.1', 60812)
Browser:
http://localhost:65432/
host.py :
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import socket
HOST = '127.0.0.1' # Standard loopback interface address (localhost)
PORT = 65432 # Port to listen on (non-privileged ports are > 1023)
with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
s.bind((HOST, PORT))
s.listen()
while True:
conn, addr = s.accept()
with conn:
print('Connected by', addr)
data = conn.recv(1024)
conn.sendall(data)
Also, each time I press ^C, and run the script again, I get
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "host.py", line 9, in <module>
s.bind((HOST, PORT))
OSError: [Errno 98] Address already in use
for one minute and cannot connect during this time. It looks like a timeout.
Your browser tries to connect several times, that's the two connections you see.
The system will keep the bound port open for some time after the owning process goes down. If you try to bind to the same port again within this time you'll receive Address already in use. You can set the SO_REUSEADDR flag to be able to instantaneously reuse the port:
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
Note: there is no need to use sudo as long as your port number is greater than 1024.
Related
I'm trying to get two computers (my PC and my laptop) to communicate over the Local Network using the Socket module in python.
This is the Server side code running on my PC (connected via LAN):
import socket
HOST = '192.168.1.3' #local PC IP
print(HOST)
PORT = 8080 # Port to listen on (non-privileged ports are > 1023)
with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
s.bind((HOST, PORT))
s.listen()
conn, addr = s.accept()
with conn:
print('Connected by', addr)
while True:
data = conn.recv(1024)
print(data)
if not data:
break
conn.sendall(data)
And this is the Client side code, running on my Laptop (connected over WiFi):
import socket
TCP_IP = '192.168.1.3'
TCP_PORT = 8080
BUFFER_SIZE = 1024
MESSAGE = b"Hello, World!"
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT))
s.send(MESSAGE)
data = s.recv(BUFFER_SIZE)
s.close()
print("received data:", data)
The thing is: when I execute both codes, the Server side stays idle waiting for a connection and the Client side, after a while stops and returns the following timeout error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\...\client.py", line 13, in <module>
s.connect((TCP_IP, TCP_PORT))
TimeoutError: [WinError 10060] A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond
I can't understand why it won't connect from another device in the same network while it works perfectly if I execute the Client code on the same machine as the Server, even if when I run netstat -an in the CMD I can see the computer listening on that port:
TCP 192.168.1.3:8080 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING
I tough it had something to do with the port forwarding so I tried playing around with it but I'm having troubles with that too (the ports seem to remain closed).
I really don't know what to do next, if you have some advice or know something else I could try please reply.
It actually was a firewall problem, I just needed to disable the windows defender firewall for the local network and now everything is working fine
In Windows 10, I had to open the port I was using for the socket, and it worked for me.
Here is a link to the instructions.
You're listening and connecting to the same IP - you need to listen to the client's IP(or just any IP with the correct port number) on the server and connect to the server's IP on the client.
For example, if the client's IP is 1.2.3.4 and the server's is 1.2.3.5, then
# server side
s.bind(('1.2.3.4', 8080)) # CLIENT_IP = '1.2.3.4'; PORT = 8080
# can also be s.bind(('0.0.0.0', 8080)) if you want multiple clients to connect.
# client side
s.connect(('1.2.3.5', 8080)) # SERVER_IP = '1.2.3.5'; PORT = 8080
I've recently been tinkering around with the python socket module and I have come across an issue.
Here is my python server side script (im using python3.8.2)
import socket
#defin socket object
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.bind((socket.gethostname(), 0))
s.listen(5)
while True:
clientsocket, address = s.accept()
print(f"connection from client has been established")
clientsocket.send(bytes("welcome to the server!", "utf-8"))
My server side script runs fine, however when i run the client script
import socket
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((socket.gethostname(127.0.0.1), 0))
msg = s.recv(1024)
print(msg.decode("utf-8"))
i get the following:
File "client.py", line 3
s.connect((socket.gethostname(127.0.0.1), 0))
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
I've tried changing the IP to my computer host name and gives the following:
raceback (most recent call last):
File "client.py", line 3, in <module>
s.connect(socket.gethostname((LAPTOP-XXXXXXX), 0))
NameError: name 'LAPTOP' is not defined
There are multiple issues:
when specifying IP addresses and hostnames, they must be formatted as strings (e.g. "127.0.0.1" and "LAPTOP-XXXXXXX"). Specifying them without quotes causes Python to attempt to interpret them as other tokens, such as variable names, reserved keyword, numbers, etc., which fails causing erros such as SyntaxError and NameError.
socket.gethostname() does not take an argument
specifying port 0 in the socket.bind() call results in a random high numbered port being assigned, so you either need to hardcode the port you use or dynamically specify the correct port in your client (e.g. by specifying it as an argument when executing the program)
in the server code, socket.gethostname() may not end up using the loopback address. One option here is using an empty string, which results in accepting connections on any IPv4 address.
Here's a working implementation:
server.py
import socket
HOST = ''
PORT = 45555
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.bind((HOST, PORT))
host_addr = s.getsockname()
print("listening on {}:{}".format(host_addr[0], host_addr[1]))
s.listen(5)
while True:
client_socket, client_addr = s.accept()
print("connection from {}:{} established".format(client_addr[0], client_addr[1]))
client_socket.send(bytes("welcome to the server!", "utf-8"))
client.py
import socket
HOST = '127.0.0.1'
PORT = 45555
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
msg = s.recv(1024)
print(msg.decode("utf-8"))
Output from the server:
$ python3 server.py
listening on 0.0.0.0:45555
connection from 127.0.0.1:51188 established
connection from 127.0.0.1:51244 established
Output from client:
$ python3 client.py
welcome to the server!
$ python3 client.py
welcome to the server!
Put the 127.0.0.1 as string in gethostname
In the /etc/hosts file content, You will have an IP address mapping with '127.0.1.1' to your hostname. This will cause the name resolution to get 127.0.1.1. Just comment this line. So Every one in your LAN can receive the data when they connect with your ip (192.168.1.*). Used threading to manage multiple Clients.
Here's the Server and Client Code:
Server Code:
import socket
import os
from threading import Thread
import threading
import time
import datetime
def listener(client, address):
print ("Accepted connection from: ", address)
with clients_lock:
clients.add(client)
try:
while True:
client.send(a)
time.sleep(2)
finally:
with clients_lock:
clients.remove(client)
client.close()
clients = set()
clients_lock = threading.Lock()
host = socket.getfqdn() # it gets ip of lan
port = 10016
s = socket.socket()
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
s.bind((host,port))
s.listen(3)
th = []
print ("Server is listening for connections...")
while True:
client, address = s.accept()
timestamp = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%b %d %Y,%a, %I:%M:%S %p")
a = ("Hi Steven!!!" + timestamp).encode()
th.append(Thread(target=listener, args = (client,address)).start())
s.close()
Client Code:
import socket
import os
import time
s = socket.socket()
host = '192.168.1.43' #my server ip
port = 10016
print(host)
print(port)
s.connect((host, port))
while True:
print((s.recv(1024)).decode())
s.close()
Output:
(base) paulsteven#smackcoders:~$ python server.py
Server is listening for connections...
Accepted connection from: ('192.168.1.43', 38716)
(base) paulsteven#smackcoders:~$ python client.py
192.168.1.43
10016
Hi Steven!!!Feb 19 2020,Wed, 11:13:17 AM
Hi Steven!!!Feb 19 2020,Wed, 11:13:17 AM
Hi Steven!!!Feb 19 2020,Wed, 11:13:17 AM
I've got a simple client and server I found on an online tutorial
#server.py
import socket # Import socket module
s = socket.socket() # Create a socket object
host = 'localhost' # Get local machine name
port = 12345 # Reserve a port for your service.
s.bind((host, port)) # Bind to the port
s.listen(5) # Now wait for client connection.
while True:
c, addr = s.accept() # Establish connection with client.
print 'Got connection from', addr
c.send('Thank you for connecting')
c.close() # Close the connection
#client # This is client.py file
import socket # Import socket module
s = socket.socket() # Create a socket object
host = 'localhost'
port = 12345 # Reserve a port for your service.
s.connect((host, port))
print s.recv(1024)
s.close # Close the socket when done
When I run my client.py all it does is print an empty string when it should print ('Thank you for connecting'). When I connect localhost 12345 from telnet it sends the message fine so I don't know why my client isn't receiving the message
Any thoughts. I'm very new to socket programming and would love to find a solution so I can move on.
While running your script as is, I got this error:
Waiting connections ...
Got connection from ('127.0.0.1', 63875)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "serv.py", line 14, in <module>
c.send('Thank you for connecting')
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
Few things here:
Ensure you're sending bytes instead of str. you could do this by replacing line 14 with:
c.send(b'Thank you for connecting')
Also, it's always useful to declare your sockets s like this:
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
Further read:
Py2: https://docs.python.org/2/library/socket.html
Py3: https://docs.python.org/3/library/socket.html
Hope it works! :)
I'm new to Sockets, please excuse my complete lack of understanding.
I have a server script(server.py):
#!/usr/bin/python
import socket #import the socket module
s = socket.socket() #Create a socket object
host = socket.gethostname() #Get the local machine name
port = 12397 # Reserve a port for your service
s.bind((host,port)) #Bind to the port
s.listen(5) #Wait for the client connection
while True:
c,addr = s.accept() #Establish a connection with the client
print "Got connection from", addr
c.send("Thank you for connecting!")
c.close()
and client script (client.py):
#!/usr/bin/python
import socket #import socket module
s = socket.socket() #create a socket object
host = '192.168.1.94' #Host i.p
port = 12397 #Reserve a port for your service
s.connect((host,port))
print s.recv(1024)
s.close
I go to my desktop terminal and start the script by typing:
python server.py
after which, I go to my laptop terminal and start the client script:
python client.py
but I get the following error:
File "client.py", line 9, in
s.connect((host,port))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth
return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)
socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
I've tried using different port numbers to no avail. However, I was able to get the host name using the same ip and the gethostname() method in the client script and I can ping the desktop (server).
Instead of
host = socket.gethostname() #Get the local machine name
port = 12397 # Reserve a port for your service
s.bind((host,port)) #Bind to the port
you should try
port = 12397 # Reserve a port for your service
s.bind(('', port)) #Bind to the port
so that the listening socket isn't too restricted. Maybe otherwise the listening only occurs on one interface which, in turn, isn't related with the local network.
One example could be that it only listens to 127.0.0.1, which makes connecting from a different host impossible.
This error means that for whatever reason the client cannot connect to the port on the computer running server script. This can be caused by few things, like lack of routing to the destination, but since you can ping the server, it should not be the case. The other reason might be that you have a firewall somewhere between your client and the server - it could be on server itself or on the client. Given your network addressing, I assume both server and client are on the same LAN, so there shouldn't be any router/firewall involved that could block the traffic. In this case, I'd try the following:
check if you really have that port listening on the server (this should tell you if your code does what you think it should): based on your OS, but on linux you could do something like netstat -ntulp
check from the server, if you're accepting the connections to the server: again based on your OS, but telnet LISTENING_IP LISTENING_PORT should do the job
check if you can access the port of the server from the client, but not using the code: just us the telnet (or appropriate command for your OS) from the client
and then let us know the findings.
Assume s = socket.socket()
The server can be bound by following methods:
Method 1:
host = socket.gethostname()
s.bind((host, port))
Method 2:
host = socket.gethostbyname("localhost") #Note the extra letters "by"
s.bind((host, port))
Method 3:
host = socket.gethostbyname("192.168.1.48")
s.bind((host, port))
If you do not exactly use same method on the client side, you will get the error: socket.error errno 111 connection refused.
So, you have to use on the client side exactly same method to get the host, as you do on the server. For example, in case of client, you will correspondingly use following methods:
Method 1:
host = socket.gethostname()
s.connect((host, port))
Method 2:
host = socket.gethostbyname("localhost") # Get local machine name
s.connect((host, port))
Method 3:
host = socket.gethostbyname("192.168.1.48") # Get local machine name
s.connect((host, port))
Hope that resolves the problem.
host = socket.gethostname() # Get the local machine name
port = 12397 # Reserve a port for your service
s.bind((host,port)) # Bind to the port
I think this error may related to the DNS resolution.
This sentence host = socket.gethostname() get the host name, but if the operating system can not resolve the host name to local address, you would get the error.
Linux operating system can modify the /etc/hosts file, add one line in it. It looks like below( 'hostname' is which socket.gethostname() got).
127.0.0.1 hostname
in your server.py file make : host ='192.168.1.94' instead of host = socket.gethostname()
Pay attention to change the port number. Sometimes, you need just to change the port number. I experienced that when i made changes over changes over syntax and functions.
I was being able to ping my connection but was STILL getting the 'connection refused' error. Turns out I was pinging myself! That's what the problem was.
I was getting the same problem in my code, and after thow days of search i finally found the solution, and the problem is the function socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname) doesnt work in linux so instead of that you have to use socket.gethostbyname('put the hostname manually') not socket.gethostbyname('localhost'), use socket.gethostbyname('host') looking with ifconfig.
try this command in terminal:
sudo ufw enable
ufw allow 12397
I learned sockets in python. When I tried to programming sockets script in one computer, it worked, but when I tried to programming sockets script with two different computers and open socket with connection, it didn't work.
One computer(the server):
import socket
s = socket.socket()
host = socket.gethostname()
port = 1234
s.bind((host, port))
s.listen(5)
while True:
c, addr = s.accept()
print 'Got connection from', addr
c.send('Thank you for connecting')
c.close()
Second computer(the client):
import socket
s = socket.socket()
host = raw_input("The ip you want to connect to: ")
port = 1234
s.connect((host, port))
print s.recv(1024)
Error:
socket.error: [Errno 10061]
What is the problem in the scripts? Why it doesn't work?
Errno 10061:
It means the server you are trying to connect to is not waiting for one.
Make sure you have the port number open.
Try killing all python processes and start server again.
Update
Instead of
host = socket.gethostname()
use
host = ""