Connect JS client with Python server

Question

I'm relatively new to JS and Python, so this is probably a beginners question. I'm trying to send a string from a JS client to Python Server (and then send the string to another Python client).

This is my code:

JS client:

    var socket = io.connect('http://127.0.0.1:8484');
    socket.send('lalala');

Python server:

HOST = '127.0.0.1'
PORT = 8484
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.bind((HOST, PORT))
s.listen(2)

#JS
conn1, addr1 = s.accept()
print 'Connected by', addr1
#PY
conn2, addr2 = s.accept()
print 'Connected by', addr2

while 1:
    try:
        data = conn1.recv(1024)
    except socket.error:
        print ''
    if data:
        print data.decode('utf-8')
        conn2.send('data')

Python client:

def __init__(self): #inicializacion
    self.comando = '0'
    self.HOST = '127.0.0.1'
    self.PORT = 8484
    self.cliente = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
    fcntl.fcntl(self.cliente, fcntl.F_SETFL, os.O_NONBLOCK)

def activate(self): 
    print "Plugin de envio en marcha."

def deactivate(self):
    print "Plugin de envio off."

def __call__(self, sample):
    self.cliente.connect((self.HOST, self.PORT))
    try:
        self.comando = self.cliente.recv(1024).decode('utf-8')

    except socket.error, e:
        self.comando = '0'

    print "******************"
    print self.comando
    print "******************"

I have no problem sending a random string from python server to python client, but I can't receive from the JS client.

When I run the server and the clients there are no problems with the connection:

Connected by ('127.0.0.1', 52602)
Connected by ('127.0.0.1', 52603)

But, for example, this is what I receive from the JS:

GET /socket.io/1/?t=1472322502274 HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:8484
Connection: keep-alive
Origin: http://127.0.0.1:8880
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.84 Safari/537.36
Accept: */*
Referer: http://127.0.0.1:8880/normal.html
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch
Accept-Language: es-ES,es;q=0.8
Cookie: io=e7675566ceab4aa1991d55cd72c8075c

But I want the string 'lalala'.

Any ideas?

(And thank you!)

Answer 1

If you want to connect to the python TCP server, then you can use a code similar to the following in node:

var net = require('net');

var client = new net.Socket();
client.connect(8484, '127.0.0.1', function() {
    console.log('Connected');
    client.write('Hello, server! Love, Client.');
});

client.on('data', function(data) {
    console.log('Received: ' + data);
    client.destroy(); // kill client after server's response
});

The server started by your python code doesn't listens for raw TCP connections. If you read up on HTTP protocol you will understand why you saw those strings when your js code sent that string.

Answer 2

socket.socket() doesn't create a websocket server.

You should use a websocket server, check this : https://websockets.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Also your python client should use websockets too, even though you could still send data using raw sockets.