I have two programs for server and client. My server can connect to multiple client. But the problem right now I am facing is that, I want to display some message from the server side to client side but I am unable to do that. Both the server and client program are provided below. I think the syntax that is preventing me to print the message on the client side is scanfwhich is used the code of client (second line of the while loop). I am not getting any solution for that about how to display the two messages from the server side when the client will get connected.
Problem 1:
Server side messages that I want to display on the client side when client gets connected : (can be found in the new_connection_handler function)
message = "This is connection handler\n";
message = "Type something \n";
Problem 2:
Why I need to use the sleep (2) on the client side? If I do not use the sleep (2), then I cannot receive the data sent by the client on the client side. The data shows when I send something second time from the client side.
Problem 3:
Is it possible to write both the client and server code together and compile and run it using command line arguments?
Server Code:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<string.h> //strlen
#include<stdlib.h> //strlen
#include<sys/socket.h>
#include<arpa/inet.h> //inet_addr
#include<unistd.h> //write
#include<pthread.h> //for thread
#define MAX_CLIENTS 5
//the thread function
void *new_connection_handler(void *);
int main(int argc , char *argv[])
{
int socket_desc , client_sock , c , *new_sock;
struct sockaddr_in server , client;
//Create socket
socket_desc = socket(AF_INET , SOCK_STREAM , 0);
if (socket_desc == -1)
{
printf("Could not create socket");
}
//Prepare the sockaddr_in structure
server.sin_family = AF_INET;
server.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
server.sin_port = htons( 8888 );
bzero (&server.sin_zero, 8);
//Bind
if( bind(socket_desc,(struct sockaddr *)&server , sizeof(server)) < 0)
{
//print the error message
perror("bind failed. Error");
return 1;
}
//Listen
listen(socket_desc , MAX_CLIENTS);
//Accept and incoming connection
printf("Waiting for incoming connections\n");
c = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
while( (client_sock = accept(socket_desc, (struct sockaddr *)&client, (socklen_t*)&c)) )
{
printf("Connection accepted");
pthread_t thread_id;
if( pthread_create( &thread_id , NULL , new_connection_handler , (void*) &client_sock) < 0)
{
perror("could not create thread");
return 1;
}
printf("Handler assigned\n");
}
if (client_sock < 0)
{
perror("accept failed");
return 1;
}
return 0;
}
void *new_connection_handler(void *socket_desc)
{
//Get the socket descriptor
int sock = *(int*)socket_desc;
int read_size;
char *message , client_message[2000];
//Send some messages to the client
message = "This is connection handler\n";
write(sock , message , strlen(message));
message = "Type something \n";
write(sock , message , strlen(message));
//Receive a message from client
while( (read_size = recv(sock , client_message , 2000 , 0)) > 0 )
{
//Send the message back to client
write(sock , client_message , strlen(client_message));
}
if(read_size == 0)
{
printf("Client disconnected\n");
fflush(stdout);
}
else if(read_size == -1)
{
perror("recv failed");
}
//Free the socket pointer
free(socket_desc);
return 0;
}
Client Code:
#include<stdio.h> //printf
#include<string.h> //strlen
#include<sys/socket.h> //socket
#include<arpa/inet.h> //inet_addr
int main(int argc , char *argv[])
{
int sock;
struct sockaddr_in server;
char message[1000] , server_reply[2000];
int len;
//Create socket
sock = socket(AF_INET , SOCK_STREAM , 0);
if (sock == -1)
{
printf("Could not create socket");
}
puts("Socket created");
server.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
server.sin_family = AF_INET;
server.sin_port = htons( 8888 );
//Connect to remote server
if (connect(sock , (struct sockaddr *)&server , sizeof(server)) < 0)
{
perror("connect failed. Error");
return 1;
}
puts("Connected\n");
//keep communicating with server
while(1)
{
printf("Enter message : ");
scanf("%s" , message);
//Send some data
if( send(sock , message , strlen(message) , 0) < 0)
{
puts("Send failed");
return 1;
}
sleep (2);
//Receive a reply from the server
if((len = recv(sock , server_reply , 2000 , 0)) < 0)
{
puts("recv failed");
break;
}
puts("Server reply :");
server_reply [len]='\0';
printf("%s\n", server_reply);
}
close(sock);
return 0;
}
