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Server Code
import socket import threading HEADER = 64 PORT = 5050 SERVER = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) ADDR = (SERVER, PORT) FORMAT = 'utf-8' DISCONNECT_MESSAGE = "!DISCONNECT" server = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) server.bind(ADDR) def handle_client(conn, addr): print(f"[NEW CONNECTION] {addr} connected.") connected = True while connected: msg_length = conn.recv(HEADER).decode(FORMAT) if msg_length: msg_length = int(msg_length) msg = conn.recv(msg_length).decode(FORMAT) if msg == DISCONNECT_MESSAGE: connected = False print(f"[{addr}] {msg}") conn.send("Msg received".encode(FORMAT)) conn.close() def start(): server.listen() print(f"[LISTENING] Server is listening on {SERVER}") while True: conn, addr = server.accept() thread = threading.Thread(target=handle_client, args=(conn, addr)) thread.start() print(f"[ACTIVE CONNECTIONS] {threading.activeCount() - 1}") print("[STARTING] server is starting...") start()
Client Code
import socket HEADER = 64 PORT = 5050 FORMAT = 'utf-8' DISCONNECT_MESSAGE = "!DISCONNECT" SERVER = "192.168.1.26" ADDR = (SERVER, PORT) client = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) client.connect(ADDR) def send(msg): message = msg.encode(FORMAT) msg_length = len(message) send_length = str(msg_length).encode(FORMAT) send_length += b' ' * (HEADER - len(send_length)) client.send(send_length) client.send(message) print(client.recv(2048).decode(FORMAT)) send("Hello World!") input() send("Hello Everyone!") input() send("Hello Tim!") send(DISCONNECT_MESSAGE)