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Heroku: ErrorTimeout connecting to a socket

I'm having problems with a simple socket connection to an Heroku app.
This is my server:
import socket
import os
import time
import sys
server = socket.socket()
port = int(os.environ.get("PORT", 12344))
host = "0.0.0.0"
server.bind((host, port))
print(f"###### SERVER RUNNING ON PORT {port} ({host}) ######")
server.listen()
while True:
s, addr = server.accept()
print("Recived request from:", addr)
print(addr, " sent: ", repr(s.recv(1024)))
print("Answering to:", addr)
s.send("Hello, world! (from server)".encode())
print("Answered to:", addr)
s.close()
It builds and run perfectly on Heroku(it receives also socket connection, not from me...by at this time, I don't care much about it)
This is my client:
import socket
import sys
HOST = 'app_name.herokuapp.com/' # The server's hostname or IP address
PORT = int(sys.argv[1]) # The port used by the server
with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as s:
print("connecting to " + HOST +":"+str(PORT))
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
print(s)
s.sendall("HI!!!".encode())
data = s.recv(1024)
print('Received', repr(data))
Running the client, after a while it returns:
File "./client.py", line 14, in <module>
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
TimeoutError: [Errno 110] Connection timed out
I don't know how to connect to it...am I missing something?

The problem is linked to the fact that Heroku app allow only http(s) connections. I honesty didn't found any Heroku docs that conferm it but the Daniel Chin' answer to this question make sense to me.
However, move the server.py to AWS worked for me (EC2 with t2.micro is free for the first year!!)

Print is not showing result when executing this simple socket connection code in python. Why is the print not showing result?

I have the following client/server python code. The print line from the server where i used f-string interpolation does not show anything when the code is executed and I would like to know why?
I followed this tutorial and on their end the print line shows result.
tutorial: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_networking.htm
line: Got connection from ('127.0.0.1', 48437)
my server code:
#!/usr/bin/python
# Server.py
# Import socket module
import socket
# Create a socket object
s = socket.socket()
# Get local machine name
host = socket.gethostname()
# Reserve a port number for the socket service
port = 22226
# Bind the host address and the port number
s.bind((host, port))
# Listens for the client connections made for the socket.
# The argument shows maximum number of queued connections and it is 1 at minimum
s.listen(5)
while True:
# Establish connection with client.
c, addr = s.accept()
print(f"Got connection from {addr}")
c.send(b'Thank you for connecting')
c.close() # Close the connection
my client code:
#!/usr/bin/python
# client.py
# Import socket module
import socket
# Create a socket object
s = socket.socket()
# Get local machine name
host = socket.gethostname()
# Reserve a port number for the socket service
port = 22226
# Connect the host address and the port number
s.connect((host, port))
# Read at most 1024 bytes
print(s.recv(1024))
s.close() # Close the socket when done

ConnectionRefusedError when trying to host python socket server on raspberry pi

I'm trying to make a basic python networking program. All I'm trying to do is send strings of text back and forth between the server and the client. I'm trying to host the server on my Raspberry Pi, and connect with a client on Windows 10. The program works great locally on my computer, but when I try to connect to my server, it gives me ConnectionRefusedError: [WinError 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. My server code is as follows:
import socket # Import socket module
import netifaces as ni
s = socket.socket() # Create a socket object
host = socket.gethostname() # Get local machine name
port = 12345 # Reserve a port for your service.
s.bind((host, port))
#host_ip = ni.ifaddresses('wlan0')[ni.AF_INET][0]['addr']
host_ip = "bruh?"
print("Server started! \nHostname: " + host + " \nIP: " + host_ip + " \nPort: " + str(port))
s.listen() # Now wait for client connection.
while True:
c, addr = s.accept() # Establish connection with client.
print('Got connection from', addr)
output = "Welcome to the server!".encode()
c.send(output)
c.close()
Client code:
import socket
s = socket.socket()
host = 192.168.1.21
port = 12345
s.connect((host, int(port)))
noResponse = False
serverResponse = s.recv(1024).decode()
print(serverResponse)
s.close()
Does anyone know what my problem is? Thanks.

There may be a few reasons you are getting a ConnectionRefusedError, please try the following:
Check that no firewall is blocking your connection.
Double-check the server IP, if it is wrong you may get this error.
Try to use Hercules to check the connection.
Also, I would change the code as follow:
Server:
import socket
HOST = '' # localhost
PORT = # IMPORTANT !! Do not use reserved ports
with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as sock:
sock.bind((HOST, PORT))
sock.listen()
conn, addr = sock.accept()
with conn:
print('Connected by', addr)
while True:
data = conn.recv(1024)
if not data:
break
print('Data: ',data)
conn.sendall('RT')
Client:
import socket
HOST = '' # server IP address
PORT = # server port
with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) as sock:
sock.connect((HOST, PORT))
sock.sendall('Hello, I am the Client')
data = sock.recv(1024)
print('Received', data)
By doing this you are using a TCP connection and you can test your code with different TCP server and client emulators.

Python socket sends the first message but nothing afterward

My socket sends the first message but nothing afterward.
The output in the server:
What do you want to send?
lol
The client receives:
From localhost got message:
lol
And then it doesn't want to send anything else.
I don't get the what do you want to send printed anymore.
My code:
server.py file:
#!/usr/bin/python3
import socket
# create a socket object
serversocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
# get local machine name
host = socket.gethostname()
print ("got host name:", host)
port = 9996
print("connecting on port:", port)
# bind to the port
serversocket.bind((host, port))
print("binding host and port")
# queue up to 5 requests
serversocket.listen(5)
print("Waiting for connection")
while True:
clientsocket, addr = serversocket.accept()
msg = input("what do you want to send?\n")
clientsocket.send(msg.encode('ascii'))
client.py file:
#!/usr/bin/python3
import socket # create a socket object
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) # get local machine
# name
host = socket.gethostname()
port = 9996 # connection to hostname on the port.
s.connect((host, port)) # Receive no more than 1024 bytes
while True:
msg = s.recv(1024)
print(msg.decode("ascii"))

The client only connects once (OK) but the server waits for an incoming connection every start of the while loop.
Since there are no more connection requests by a client, the server will freeze on the second iteration.
If you just want to handle a single client, move clientsocket, addr = serversocket.accept() before the while loop. If you want to handle multiple clients, the standard way is to have the server accept connections inside the while loop and spawn a thread for each client.
You can also use coroutines, but that may be a bit overkill if you are just starting out.

Python s.recv() returns empty string

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! :)