python socket query

[smilesonisamal at gmail.com]

On Monday, December 23, 2013 8:49:30 AM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 2:05 PM,  <smilesonisamal at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I wrote a small program which creates the socket, bind to the socket, connect to socket and send() close(). I see that there is no reply coming from server and the TCP disconnect happens.
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> > import socket
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> >
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> > def tcp(host, request, port=34567):
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> >
> 
> > s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
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> >
> 
> > s.connect((host, port))
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> >
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> > s.send(request)
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> >
> 
> > reply = s.recv(2**14)
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> >
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> > s.close()
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> >
> 
> > return reply
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> 
> 
> First off, your formatting has become mangled. This is likely to be
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> because of Google Groups, which tends to make a mess of posts. I
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> strongly recommend you get a better newsreader, such as Thunderbird,
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> or switch to the mailing list:
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> 
> 
> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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> 
> 
> I'm going to assume that (a) the code you've provided is all part of
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> the tcp() function, and (b) that you are actually calling tcp()
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> somewhere and seeing what comes back. But once you sort out your
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> posting issues, you may want to post a complete program (probably not
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> more than a couple of additional lines beyond what you have above) so
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> we know what's actually going on.
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> 
> 
> Terminology point: You mention binding to the socket. In networking,
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> "bind" has a specific meaning - binding to an address, usually done
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> for servers, and something you're not doing here.
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> 
> 
> Are you sure the server's doing something? I tried what you had there
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> (albeit under Python 3.3), and it seems to be fine. Perhaps you need
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> to terminate the request with something - maybe a newline. The send()
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> method will send exactly the bytes you give it, nothing more.
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> 
> 
> Can you telnet to the server?
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> 
> 
Thanks Chris.I have put bind call but it did not work.  
Even telnet hangs if i tried to connect to the same IP and port manually. Is there a workaround to fix this issue?

If the socket gets closed at the other end. How can we get around with the issue? Any idea?
> ChrisA