tcp networking question (CLOSE_WAIT)

[Ray]

On Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 12:56:10 PM UTC-5, Ray wrote:
> hi,
> 
> I'm new to python networking. I am waiting TCP server/client app by using python built-in SocketServer. My problem is if client get killed, then the tcp port will never get released, in CLOSE_WAIT
> 
> maybe I didn't do the handler right? or anyway I can catch the client get killed?
> 
> I wrote following simple code to explain the issue I have, server listen on 127.0.0.1:1234
> client need to send multi-messages (I am sending 2 in this test) if client get killed (I just do kill client_pid) then if I check lsof, I will see the new allocated tcp do not get released 
> 
> ########server.py########
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> import threading
> import SocketServer
> import time
> 
> class TCPServerRequestHandler(SocketServer.BaseRequestHandler):
> 
>     def handle(self):
>         while True:
>             data=self.request.recv(1024)
>             if not data:
>                 time.sleep(0.1)
>                 continue
>             print data
>             self.request.send(data)
>             if data=='end':
>                 break
> 
> def main():
>     server = TCPServer(('127.0.0.1', 1234), TCPServerRequestHandler)
>     ip, port = server.server_address
>     server_thread = threading.Thread(target=server.serve_forever)
>     server_thread.daemon = True
>     server_thread.start()
>     time.sleep(600)
>     server.shutdown()
>     server.server_close()
> if __name__=='__main__':
>     main()
> 
> ########client.py########
> import socket
> import time
> 
> def client():
>     sock=socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>     sock.connect(('127.0.0.1', 1234))
>     sock.sendall('hello')
>     response=sock.recv(1024)
>     print "Received:", response
>     time.sleep(60)
>     sock.sendall('end')
>     response=sock.recv(1024)
>     print "Received:", response
>     sock.close()
> 
> if __name__=='__main__':
>     client()
> 
> 
> when I run it, client has 60 seconds sleep, so I just kill the process from OS
> kill 93948
> 
> then I'm running lsof to find my TCP/UDP 
> lsof -n -p $(ps -ef|grep serve[r]|awk '{print $2}')|egrep '(TCP|UDP)'|awk '{print $NF}'
> 
> TCP 127.0.0.1:search-agent (LISTEN)
> TCP 127.0.0.1:search-agent->127.0.0.1:59411 (CLOSE_WAIT)
> 
> I will see the CLOSE_WAIT, this is where the client get killed.
> 
> 
> any help would be great!
> 
> Thanks a lot!


I fond the issue. it's my own stupid issue.
i did "continue" if no data received.
just break from it then it will be fine