Thread: Help With Socket Programming

Hello - I need some help in socket Programming - I have Server and client code which is working fine. When client type some thing - it appears on the server side.

Now I have to do same thing - when server writes something it should appear on the client side too.
Any help/suggestions are really appreciated.

Here is client code :-

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define SERVER_PORT 5432
#define MAX_LINE 256

int main(int argc, char * argv[])
{
	FILE *fp;
	struct hostent *hp;
	struct sockaddr_in sin;
	char *host;
	char buf[MAX_LINE];
	int s;
	int len;

	if (argc==2) {
		host = argv[1];
	} else  {
		fprintf(stderr, "usage : simplex-talk hhost\n");
		exit(1);
	}


	/* translare host name into Peer's IP address */
	hp = gethostbyname(host);

	if (!hp) {
		fprintf(stderr, "Simplex-talk : unknown host : %s\n", host);
		exit(1);
	}


	/* build address data structure */
	bzero((char *)&sin, sizeof(sin));
	sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
	bcopy(hp->h_addr, (char *)&sin.sin_addr, hp->h_length);
	sin.sin_port = htons(SERVER_PORT);

	/*active open*/
	if ((s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) {
		perror ("Simplex-talk : socket");
		exit(1);
	}


	if (connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sin , sizeof(sin)) < 0) {
		perror ("simplex-talk: connect");
		close(s);
		exit(1);
	}


	/*main loop : get and send lines of text */
	while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin)) {
		buf[MAX_LINE-1] = '\0';
		len = strlen(buf) + 1;
		send (s, buf, len, 0);
	}
}




Here is Server code :-

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define SERVER_PORT 5432
#define MAX_PENDING 5
#define MAX_LINE 256

int main()
{
	struct sockaddr_in sin;
	char buf[MAX_LINE];
	int len;
	int s, new_s;

	/* build address data structure*/
	bzero((char *)&sin, sizeof(sin));
	sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
	sin.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
	sin.sin_port = htons(SERVER_PORT);

	/*setup passive open */
	if ((s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) {
		perror ("Simplex-talk: socket");
		exit(1);
	}

	if ((bind(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sin, sizeof(sin))) <0) {
		perror ("Simplex * - talk :bind");
		exit(1);
	}

	listen(s, MAX_PENDING);

	/*wait fro connection , then receive and print text */
	while(1) {
		if ((new_s = accept(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sin, &len)) < 0) {
			perror("simplex-talk :accept");
			exit(1);
		}

		while (len = recv(new_s, buf, sizeof(buf), 0))
			fputs(buf, stdout);

		close(new_s);
	}
}

Please reply soon.

Thanks

the same topic has been discussed several times, try to search the board or be more specific. If this is the multiplexing aspect which bothers you, look for documentation about select(), poll() and friends.

Root4 - my intentions are not to annoy anyone. My specific question is what/where should I change so that my server code can also send the text to client. I tried to make small change to make sure atleast its reaching to the point where server is able to read the text written on the server - but it didn't work. Here is the code (see last two lines).

Code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <netdb.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <strings.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

#define SERVER_PORT 5432
#define MAX_PENDING 5
#define MAX_LINE 256

int main()
{
	struct sockaddr_in sin;
	char buf[MAX_LINE];
	int len;
	int s, new_s;

	/* build address data structure*/
	bzero((char *)&sin, sizeof(sin));
	sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
	sin.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
	sin.sin_port = htons(SERVER_PORT);

	/*setup passive open */
	if ((s = socket(PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0) {
		perror ("Simplex-talk: socket");
		exit(1);
	}

	if ((bind(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sin, sizeof(sin))) <0) {
		perror ("Simplex * - talk :bind");
		exit(1);
	}

	listen(s, MAX_PENDING);

	/*wait fro connection , then receive and print text */
	while(1) {
		if ((new_s = accept(s, (struct sockaddr *)&sin, &len)) < 0) {
			perror("simplex-talk :accept");
			exit(1);
		}

		while (len = recv(new_s, buf, sizeof(buf), 0))
			fputs(buf, stdout);

		close(new_s);
	}

	while (fgets(buf, sizeof(buf), stdin)) {
	fprint ("Read");
	}}

Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're trying to do, all you have to do to have the sever send data back to the client is use the send function, just like you're doing on the client side.

the server has to wait incoming data either from the standard input, or from the client socket, if it's from the client socket you display it, if it's from the standard input, you send it to the client. There are several functions allowing to test from which stream data is available and I gave those in my previous post: select(), poll(), pselect()...

Code:

while(1) {
  select(...)
  if(from client) recv(...),printf(...)
  if(from stdin) read(0,buffer,max),send(client,buffer,...)
}

As i told, you will find many code examples in older threads.

Thank you all - finally my programming is working - server is sending data back to the client now.

Once again appreciate your help.