socket issue with recv()
Arthur Clarck
aclarck5 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 23 04:39:07 EDT 2014
I forgot to mention that with this code:
total = ''
while True:
data = s.recv(1024)
total += data
if (total != ''):
print total
total = ''
Everything is fine.
I am still looping but I get the complete data flow sent by the remote server.
The data flow is not corrupted with extra characters.
But I do not detect the closing of the socket on the remote server.
Why is recv not blocking !!!
Le samedi 23 août 2014 10:23:14 UTC+2, Arthur Clarck a écrit :
> Hello,
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>
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> I am starting socket scripting with python.
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> I do understand from the doc that a socket is bmocking by default.
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> I wrote 2 basics script to verify this behaviour.
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> my "tcp_server.py":
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> import socket, sys
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> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
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> HOST = '192.168.0.103'
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> PORT = 1060
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> s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
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> s.bind((HOST, PORT))
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> while True:
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> s.listen(1)
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> print 'Listening at', s.getsockname()
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> sc, sockname = s.accept()
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> print 'We have accepted a connection from', sockname
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> print 'Socket connects', sc.getsockname(), 'and', sc.getpeername()
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> while True:
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> data = sc.recv(1024)
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> if data:
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> print 'Got from client:', repr(data)
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> data = ''
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> else:
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> #raise EOFError('socket closed')
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> print 'socket closed by remote client'
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> sc.close()
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> sys.exit()
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> and my "tcp_client.py"
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> import socket, sys, time
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> s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
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> HOST = '192.168.0.103'
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> PORT = 1060
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> s.connect((HOST, PORT))
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> print 'Client has been assigned socket name', s.getsockname()
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> while True:
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> data = raw_input('cmd:')
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> if (data == '\x05'):
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> print 'closing socket and exit'
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> s.close()
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> sys.exit()
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> s.sendall(data)
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> When both are running everything what I type in the client is received by the server.
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> When nothing is sent from the client the server is waiting (socket is blocking)
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> for next datas.
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> If I close the client with Ctrl-E (or a kill) the socket on the server is getting a null value and the server exit.
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> So everything is fine. And everything is clear in my mind.
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> The problem I have now is the following.
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> I have a script to connect to some telecom service.
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> The script is forking (parent/child)
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> The child is only reading what comes from the remote server.
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> Here the problematic code:
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> total = ''
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> while True:
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> data = s.recv(1024)
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> total += data
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> if (data == ''):
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> print 'remote site is closed'
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> s.close()
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> sys.exit()
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> What is happening is that I got some datas from the remote site,
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> Something like 'Contacting BH: ...'
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> But directly followed by 'remote site is closed.
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> And if I remove the 2 lines (s.close;sys.exit) my script is looping
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> So it means data==''
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> This makes no sense at all.
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> Why is the socket not waiting for the next datas flow ??
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> Why is the socket not blocking ?
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> With Perl I just have to write:
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> while (sysread($socket,$data,1024)){
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> syswrite(STDOUT,$data)
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> }
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> And it works perfectly.
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> Any hint about what I missed in Python ?
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> kr,
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> Arthur.
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