Socket Programming in Python

References

• http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/sockets/

Examples

Client

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Create an INET, STREAMing socket

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

#now connect to the web server on port 80 - the normal http port

s.connect(("www.performiq.com.au", 80))

Simple HTTP Server

#!/usr/bin/env python

# Create an INET, STREAMing socket

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

# Bind the socket to a public host ip, and a well-known port

serversocket.bind((socket.gethostname(), 80))

# Become a server socket

serversocket.listen(5)

while True:
   # Accept connections from outside
   
   (clientsocket, address) = serversocket.accept()

   # Now do something with the clientsocket -
   # say, pretend this is a threaded server

   ct = client_thread(clientsocket)

   ct.run()