Socket Question

[Leon Zhang]

Maybe you need to close the socket somewhere else, rather than to close it
when you receive the your response.

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:01 AM, Ali Hamad <ali.hamad34 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All :
>
> A socket question from a networking newbie.  I need to create
> a server that:
>
> 1) receive a message from client.
> 2) check that message and response to it.
> 3) the client get the server message and send another message.
> 4) finally, the server receive the message and close the connection.
>
> I have successfully done this. However, I couldn't use the same socket
> to send the second message
> to the server. I have googled but all the examples are only for sending
> one message and receiving the response.
>
> in my client code, I have :
>
> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> s.connect(('127.0.0.1', 1888))
> s.send("1st message")
> response = s.recv(1024)
> validate(response)
> s.send("2nd message")
> response2 = s.recv(1024)
> s.close()
>
> However, I got the first response just fine from the server but the
> second message didn't get to the server.
>
> So, the solution I came up with is to send the 1st message, close the
> socket, create new socket,
> and send the 2nd message.
>
> I came up with something like :
>
> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> s.connect(('127.0.0.1', 1888))
> s.send("1st message")
> response = s.recv(1024)
> s.close()
> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> s.connect(('127.0.0.1', 1888))
> s.send("2nd message")
> response = s.recv(1024)
> s.close()
>
> and it works !
>
> My Question :
>
> is it possible to send/receive from the same socket more than one message ?
>
> Thank you for your assistance in advance,
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