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how can i recv information from server? python socket

i can recv info from client but i dont know how to recv it from server.
"i think in line 15 i need to change "socket" to somethong"
it must be that type: 'socket.socket'
client:
import socket
client = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) # AF_INET = IP, SOCK_STREAM = TCP
client.connect(('127.0.0.1', 1002)) # 127.0.0.1
while True:
command = input('>>>')
if command == 'stop':
exit()
command = command.encode('utf-8')
client.send(command)
get = socket.recv(2048)
get = get.decode('utf-8')
print('recieve',get)
server:
import socket
import subprocess
server = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) # AF_INET = IP, SOCK_STREAM = TCP
server.bind(('127.0.0.1', 1002)) # 127.0.0.1
server.listen()
client_socket, client_address = server.accept()
print(type(client_socket))
while True:
get = client_socket.recv(2048)
get = get.decode('utf-8')
print('recieve',get)
output = subprocess.check_output(get, shell=True)
client_socket.send(output)
output from client:
File "C:\Users\rusla\Desktop\client.py", line 15, in <module>
get = socket.recv(1024)
AttributeError: module 'socket' has no attribute 'recv'

Making an outbound connection

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

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! :)

Unable to connect the client to the server using Docker COntainers

python server code:
#!/usr/bin/python
import socket
s = socket.socket()
host = socket.gethostname()
port = 12345
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()
Python client code
#!/usr/bin/python
import socket
s = socket.socket()
host = socket.gethostname()
port = 12345
s.connect((host, port))
print s.recv(1024)
s.close
Dockerfile:
FROM python:2-onbuild
CMD ["python","./client.py"]
Though they are building images successfully, this error errno111 arises.
Server starts running but the client is unable to access the server.
The error is given below. I don't know if I have to add any additional data to the dockerfile or should I do anything with the way of executing the docker containers. The Python client and server execute perfectly in the Python IDLE.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./client.py", line 9, in <module>
s.connect((host,port))
File "usr/local/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 228, in meth
return getattr(self._sock, name)(*args)
socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused

How to use client socket as a server socket python

I like to have one port that first use for connect to another server and after that this port use to be a server and another clients connect to it.
I used python socket for client now I want to use it for server socket.
my code :
#!/usr/bin/python # This is server.py file
import socket # Import socket module
s = socket.socket() # Create a socket object
host = socket.gethostname() # Get local machine name
port = 12349
portt = 12341 # Reserve a port for your service.
s.bind((host, portt)) # Bind to the port
s.connect((host, port))
s.listen(5) # Now wait for client connection.
c, addr = s.accept() # Establish connection with client.
print c
print 'Got connection from', addr
print s.recv(1024)
s.close
and the output is
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "client.py", line 12, in <module>
s.listen(5) # Now wait for client connection.
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth
return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)
socket.error: [Errno 22] Invalid argument
How can I do that.
thank you for your answers!

Not sure what you are trying to do here. Seems to me that you are mixing client and server code in the same app.
For reference, you can create a simple echo server like this:
import socket
HOST = ''
PORT = 12349
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.bind((HOST, PORT))
s.listen(5)
conn, addr = s.accept()
print 'Connected by', addr
while 1:
data = conn.recv(1024)
if not data: break
conn.sendall(data)
conn.close()
And a simple echo client like this:
import socket
HOST = 'localhost'
PORT = 12349
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
s.sendall('Hello, world')
data = s.recv(1024)
s.close()
print 'Received', repr(data)