Transferring a file over sockets

[Tim Golden]

Ferdinand Sousa wrote:
> I am using sockets to transfer a file over LAN. There are 2 scripts, the
> server opens a listens for connection and the client is run on another
> machine. I always make sure the server is run first. The strange thing is
> that if the the server script is double-clicked and executed (run in a
> console with title %Python path%python.exe) the output file saved on the
> server is truncated. It works just fine if you open the server script in
> IDLE and then run it. The client script can be run in either way, it still
> works. You could try using any arbitrary file to test this behaviour after
> changing the file name in both the scripts.

A couple of things:

* Are you aware that there's no particular guarantee
that what's sent along a socket in one write will
be received in one read? There's a HOWTO here if
you're interested:

http://docs.python.org/dev/howto/sockets.html

* Also, unless this is an exercise for yourself in investigating
how sockets work, (in which case... read the docs :)), you might
consider that you're reinventing the wheel not a little. But
perhaps you knew that?

TJG

> 
> ==========================================================
> # file receiver
> # work in progress
> 
> import socket
> 
> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> HOST = '192.168.1.17'
> PORT = 31400
> 
> s.bind((HOST, PORT))
> s.listen(3)
> conn, addr = s.accept()
> print 'conn at address',addr
> conn.send('READY')
> f = open('C:\\Documents and Settings\\USER\\Desktop\\test.pdf','wb')
> fsize=int(conn.recv(8))
> print 'File size',fsize
> f.write(conn.recv(fsize))
> f.close()
> conn.close()
> s.close()
> 
> raw_input('Press any key to exit')
> 
> 
> ===========================================================
> 
> # file sender !!!
> # Work in progress
> 
> import socket, os
> from stat import ST_SIZE
> 
> 
> HOST = '192.168.1.17'
> PORT = 31400              # Arbitrary non-privileged port
> 
> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> 
> s.connect((HOST,PORT))
> if s.recv(5)!='READY':
>     raw_input('Unable to connect \n\n Press any key to exit ...')
>     s.close()
>     exit()
> 
> f=open('C:\\Documents and Settings\\USER\\Desktop\\t.pdf', 'rb')
> fsize=os.stat(f.name)[ST_SIZE]
> 
> s.send(str(fsize))
> s.send(f.read())
> 
> s.close()
> f.close()
> 
> ===========================================================
> 
> Thanks for reading!!
> 
> Best regards,
> Ferdi
> 
> 
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