socket programming

[Jaime Wyant]

It sounds really strange to connect to a server "several hundred"
times.  If I had to guess, the server monitored all of the connects
coming from your IP address and eventually stopped accepting ANY
connections.

jw

On 7/19/05, Helge Aksdal <helge at aksdal.net> wrote:
> i've recently made my very first socket program in python,
> however i've stumbled upon a problem.
> 
> this program connects to a server serveral hundred time while it's
> executed (it's not possible to let connection stay up, because the
> server closes it), and after a time my program dies with the error:
> "socket.error: (134, 'Transport endpoint is not connected')"
> 
> if i then change to a console window, and telnet to this server it
> sends me to another one. That's probably why my program dies, how
> can i get my code to handle this?
> 
> Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> telnet: connect to address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: Connection refused
> Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> Connected to xxxxxx.xxxxx.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> here is my current connection code:
> 
> def connect(self, server, port):
>     self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>     self.sock.setblocking(0)
>     self.sock.connect((server, port))
>     (sread, swrite, serror) = select.select([], [self.sock], [], 10)
>     if swrite.count(self.sock) > 0:
>         i = self.sock.getsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_ERROR)
>         if 0 == i:
>             self.sock.setblocking(1)
> 
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