An endpoint of a bidirectional inter-process communication flow. This often refers to a process flow over a network connection, but by no means is limited to such.
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A socket server that receives strings and prints them
Summary: Is my server handling every error and corner case possible? If not, what did I miss?
Details
I'm trying to write the most basic socket server I can, so I can learn TCP and the pitfalls of ...
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1answer
54 views
Protocol to parse packets
I coded this simple protocol but I'm sure that it can be better, this is the process:
Reads incoming data
Waits until payload size can be read
Reads the full message
Checks if there are mixed ...
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Apps for a server and a client
I have two Android apps, a server and a client. It seems to work, and by work I mean the handshake is successful. I am able to send data back and forth, but I feel like it's a fluke and something is ...
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0answers
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Event-driven UDP listener wrapper
I wrote this wrapper around the UdpClient,using events for new datagrams:
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0answers
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Multithreaded client socket
This is my first time working with networks and multithreading in C, and would like to know how to make improvements.
I wanted to make a client program that handles reading and writing to the server ...
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1answer
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Chat server implemented using Java NIO
I am learning Java's NIO and as an exercise, I have implemented a simple chat server. I would like to ask if I am using NIO's features in the correct way.
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1answer
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async tcp server using async/await
Here is an async Tcp server using async/await I have written. I would be very appreciate if anyone can help to improve my code. Thank you!
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2answers
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C++ Version of a Client/Server application
Starting to write an article about Socket Programing.
So I need a simple C++ version of a client/server app.
So here it is for review (Also on github)
A linked question is the C version
Makefile
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C Version of a Client/Server application
Starting to write an article about Socket Programing.
So I need a simple C version of a client/server app.
So here it is for review (Also on github)
A linked question is the C++ version
MakeFile
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2answers
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Server socket “wrap” functions
This is a small socket library I made to avoid complicated C boilerplate code and several #includes for connecting sockets, bind, listening etc.
Please note that ...
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1answer
162 views
Finding local C# servers on a Java client using UDP and reactive extensions
This program uses UDP broadcast to find app servers on the local network. When a server receives a client broadcast, it sends a port (integer) to the client which will later be used to create a TCP ...
4
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1answer
54 views
Java NIO server Selector loop
I have a server that uses Java NIO in non-blocking mode. Right now I'm using a single thread for the selector, and four worker threads to process the bytes after ...
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1answer
127 views
UDP Server Design and Performance
What I'm doing
I am writing a server to work as my games backend. The server is being written in C# using UDP as the protocol, while the game is in C++. The biggest thing I've been focusing on was ...
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Android app that listens for commands over a socket
I've just begun programming Java and I'm working on the following code that deals with socket-based communications. Basically it connects to a client on port 8888:
Gist of code
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A full-duplex connection to an IRC server
This connection class can be used, through composition, to make IRC clients for different kinds of IRC services.
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1answer
90 views
GPSD socket connection and decoding JSON into Python dictionaries
GPS3 is a python 2.7-3.5 interface to GPSD.
I've stripped back everything to two classes.
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3answers
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Replacing Skype, reinventing the chat client
I'm creating a chat client and chat server after a several month programming hiatus. The goal is to make one with features I want but it's also a learning project. Although it's mostly because I'm ...
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3answers
71 views
Python HTTP Server
This is one of my first times writing Python. I'm most curious about style and whether while 1: x,y = socket.accept() is an acceptable way to wait for new ...
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1answer
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Testing a socket-based application
Summary: How can I best write tests that override socket-based communication for a library, capturing what is sent over the socket, and simulating responses based on what is sent?
Details
I'm adding ...
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1answer
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Loop through List multi-threading to ping hostnames
I am new to Multi-threading. I have had a go at writing some code that loops through an ArrayList, gets a hostname and then pings the hostname. If the hostname is ...
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1answer
141 views
Reading and Writing Messages from a Socket
This is code from my android client which communicates over wifi to a small server program (not coded in java). This is my first time playing around with sockets, so I'm sure there are lots of little ...
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2answers
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Program to let any user run a command
I have a script which can only be run by one specific user on a system. I need to let all users on the system have access to run that script and see the output. But there must never be more than one ...
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1answer
54 views
Server client for distributed system
This is the code I am using for a distributed system. The code will be used to allow the server to send parts of a (really big) document which will be processed by the connected clients. Please tell ...
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2answers
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Command line IRC client
I made this IRC client ages ago in Python, and thought I'd revisit it for Python 3.5 (I'd like to play with asyncio). Before I start, I'd like to have an overall design review about this.
Known ...
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1answer
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Socket.ReadPacketASync
I'm working with TCP Sockets and I've build a simple packet struct that turns it into a datagram protocol. I've created a class which returns "promise" Tasks for Packets. Packets are very simple, they ...
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2answers
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Find available ports on localhost
I'm writing code to find the available ports on 127.0.0.1. I'd like it to be faster, but it's functional now.
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1answer
115 views
Server-side of a chat application
I have written a server-side and the client-side of a chat application. I would like to improve it and I am unsure about my server construct and have absolutely no idea if there is a better way to do ...
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1answer
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Server / client desynchronisation of messages [closed]
I'm trying to build a game where a client gets to play against a server in a game of Tic Tac Toe. I've built the game and followed a somehow structured design of how the game is supposed to happen, ...
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0answers
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ByteBuffer Performance with Java NIO2 AsynchronousChannelGroup.withFixedThreadPool
I have a socket which will be receiving more than 100 TPS, so I need the reading to be as fast as possible. In this socket, I read the info I need to build a String and check if it matches a regex. I ...
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2answers
173 views
Simple TCP client-server solution
I have implemented a simple client-server solution using Java sockets and useful classes from java.util.concurrent.
The communication protocol is rather simple:
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0answers
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N Processing connect to a single process: Socket Programming
The idea of my program is to use pthreads, semaphores, posix shared
memory, and sockets to create an environment where N processes
(that we will refer to as the children) can connect to a single
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1answer
160 views
ISO8583 encoding data fields
I just want to confirm that my ISO8583 format is correct.
Example:
For the data field 35, the length of the data is 36, so I put 36 before the 4842. Then all the data is inserted in a string (...
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1answer
85 views
Server listening for program sockets
Essentially I have a server that will be listening for sockets in other programs seeking a connection:
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1answer
33 views
Handling incoming socket data
Below I have some code that I use to handle incoming socket data, this is not full thing but its the part I am worried about, is there any way to improve this?
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votes
1answer
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1answer
324 views
Python TCP echo server
The below code is a simple TCP echo server. The folks using it claim "it is going down every now and again". Any thoughts on how this could be improved would be really appreciated, particularly if ...
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1answer
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node.js game CPU usage
My friend and I are making a node.js game, and we have been testing CPU. After profiling, it was determined that this process called zlib is sucking most of the CPU/RAM.
3 clients connected to a game ...
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1answer
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POP3 message downloader using state machine processor
This simple program uses a socket class I wrote, class socket, to retrieve a users pop3 emails and print to stdout. I would like feedback on the socket class and the code to download the pop3 emails. ...
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votes
1answer
135 views
TCP server with user accounts, connection threading, and groups/permissions
This is a TCP server I am currently working on. It is accessed through telnet (I know it isn't secure, its just a project for uni). The server is programmed in Python 3.
I am currently trying to ...
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1answer
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Winsock GET and POST Functions
This works fine so far, but I am looking for some advice as to how to better write this. My goal is to learn and incorporate current/latest C++ practices, and become a better programmer overall.
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votes
2answers
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Scanning for open ports
I made what started out as a web browser but now is a scanner for open ports. I wanted to know if you think this is a realistic or a unreliable tool for port testing. I found some open ports on my ...
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1answer
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Multithreaded client server socket
I have created this library mostly for a learning experience with sockets and threading.
For this review, focus on socket/threading. Let me know if I properly implemented both. If you want to comment ...
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1answer
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TCP Socket Wrapper
I'm trying to build a simple server software for training purpose, most likely a IRC server, but I'm not there yet.
I'm currently implementing a TCP socket class, to ease the use of the C socket API. ...
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1answer
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Non-blocking Unix domain socket
I've developed quickly two kinds of socket use: the first with blocking mode and the second with non-blocking mode. The sockets are Unix domain sockets. My problem is that the kernel consume a huge ...
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0answers
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Simple Echo Server
I wrote this echo server in Haskell as a way to introduced myself to programming with sockets in Haskell and generally practice Haskell. The echo server has a simple purpose: accept connections from a ...
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2answers
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Assessment of client-server program source code
Can you assess source code of my client-server program?
I would like to get an advice about design, code security etc.
Thank you very much.
The program does the following:
Show files in ...
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votes
2answers
497 views
Multithreaded Network Server
I would like the following code reviewed:
I am trying to create a local server which listens indefinitely and
provides the latest information. The server runs another while loop
which fetches ...
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votes
2answers
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Raw Text TCP Client v3
After studying and considering the reviews for this code, I began working on the code, and came up with this. It has much better error and disconnect detection, and it also resolves addresses:
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5answers
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Raw Text TCP Client
Yesterday I posted a request for a code review. After reviewing the code and the reviews, and after some sleep, I decided I can do better. In fact I logged on with the intent of deleting the question ...
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4answers
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Impromptu TCP sender/receiver
Every once in a while I need to get some random computer thing done; so I write something to do it for me. This is one of those. It needed to be able to send text to, and receive text from, a server - ...
