Hopefully I can explain this without sounding like a fool. I created a client and server in python. The plan was to open a file that I have stored and read the file and display it. Server sends to client, client receives and sends and acceptance back to server.
NOW HERES MY PROBLEM/QUESTION.
Instead of opening the file and reading it, I want to use the HTTP GET Function, particularly the HEAD function. I'm having trouble getting my client and server to understand the request. I've commented out some things that I was trying to play around with. The goal is to get the HTTP HEAD function to run and display.
#server code
import socket # Import socket module
port = 60000 # Reserve a port for your service.
s = socket.socket() # Create a socket object
host = socket.gethostname() # Get local machine name
s.bind((host, port)) # Bind to the port
s.listen(5) # Now wait for client connection.
print ('Server listening....')
while True:
conn, addr = s.accept() # Establish connection with client.
print ('Got connection from', addr)
data = conn.recv(1024)
print('Server received', repr(data))
filename='filename.html'
f = open(filename,'rb')
l = f.read(1024)
#request = "HEAD //filelocation/filename.html" #WANT THIS TO DISPLAY INSTEAD OF OPENING A FILE
while (l):
conn.send(l)
print('Sent ',repr(l))
#conn.send(request.encode())
#print('Sent ', repr(request)
l = f.read(1024)
f.close()
print('Done sending')
conn.send(b'Thank you for connecting')
conn.close()
#client code
import socket # Import socket module
s = socket.socket() # Create a socket object
host = socket.gethostname() # Get local machine name
port = 60000 # Reserve a port for your service.
s.connect((host, port))
request = 'HEAD //afs/cad.njit.edu/u/v/a/va257/filename.html'
s.send(b" Continue ")
with open('received_file', 'wb') as f:
print ('file opened')
while True:
print('receiving data...')
data = s.recv(1024)
print('data : ', "\n", (data))
if not data:
break
# write data to a file
f.write(data)
f.close()
print('Successfully get the file')
s.close()
print('connection closed')
