Simple Server Client Program

Server

A server has a bind() method which binds it to a specific IP and port so that it can listen to incoming requests on that IP and port. A server has a listen() method which puts the server into listening mode. This allows the server to listen to incoming connections. And last a server has an accept() and close() method. The accept method initiates a connection with the client and the close method closes the connection with the client.

Example: Network Programming Server-Side

Python3

# first of all import the socket library
import socket
 
# next create a socket object
s = socket.socket()
print ("Socket successfully created")
 
# reserve a port on your computer in our
# case it is 40674 but it can be anything
port = 40674
 
# Next bind to the port
# we have not typed any ip in the ip field
# instead we have inputted an empty string
# this makes the server listen to requests
# coming from other computers on the network
s.bind(('', port))
print ("socket binded to %s" %(port))
 
# put the socket into listening mode
s.listen(5)    
print ("socket is listening")
 
# a forever loop until we interrupt it or
# an error occurs
while True:
 
    # Establish connection with client.
    c, addr = s.accept()
    print ('Got connection from', addr )
 
    # send a thank you message to the client.
    c.send(b'Thank you for connecting')
 
    # Close the connection with the client
    c.close()

Explanation:

We made a socket object and reserved a port on our pc.
After that, we bound our server to the specified port. Passing an empty string means that the server can listen to incoming connections from other computers as well. If we would have passed 127.0.0.1 then it would have listened to only those calls made within the local computer.
After that, we put the server into listening mode. 5 here means that 5 connections are kept waiting if the server is busy and if a 6th socket tries to connect then the connection is refused.
At last, we make a while loop and start to accept all incoming connections and close those connections after a thank you message to all connected sockets.

Client

Now we need something with which a server can interact. We could tenet to the server like this just to know that our server is working. Type these commands in the terminal:

# start the server
python server.py

# keep the above terminal open
# now open another terminal and type:

telnet localhost 12345

Output :

In the telnet terminal you will get this:

This output shows that our server is working. Now for the client-side:

Example: Network Programming Client Side

Python3

# Import socket module
import socket
 
# Create a socket object
s = socket.socket()
 
# Define the port on which you want to connect
port = 40674
 
# connect to the server on local computer
s.connect(('127.0.0.1', port))
 
# receive data from the server
print(s.recv(1024))
 
# close the connection
s.close()

Output:

Explanation:

We connect to localhost on port 40674 (the port on which our server runs) and lastly, we receive data from the server and close the connection.
Now save this file as client.py and run it from the terminal after starting the server script.

Note: For more information on Socket Programming refer to our Socket Programming in Python Tutorial

Python Network Programming

Python provides two levels of access to network programming. These are –

Low-Level Access: At the low level, you can access the basic socket support of the operating system. You can implement client and server for both connection-oriented and connectionless protocols.
High-Level Access: At the high level allows to implement protocols like HTTP, FTP, etc.

In this article, we will discuss Network Socket Programming. But before getting started let’s understand what are sockets.

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