Top "Sockets" questions

Python [Errno 98] Address already in use

In my Python socket program, I sometimes need to interrupt it with Ctrl-C. When I do this, it does close …

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socket.shutdown vs socket.close

I recently saw a bit of code that looked like this (with sock being a socket object of course): sock.…

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Get IP address of an interface on Linux

How can I get the IPv4 address of an interface on Linux from C code? For example, I'd like to …

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How to find the socket buffer size of linux

What's the default socket buffer size of linux? Is there any command to see it?

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How to tell if a connection is dead in python

I want my python application to be able to tell when the socket on the other side has been dropped. …

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Does a TCP socket connection have a "keep alive"?

I have heard of HTTP keep-alive but for now I want to open a socket connection with a remote server. …

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What does Python's socket.recv() return for non-blocking sockets if no data is received until a timeout occurs?

Basically, I've read in several places that socket.recv() will return whatever it can read, or an empty string signalling …

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I/O error(socket error): [Errno 111] Connection refused

I have a program that uses urllib to periodically fetch a url, and I see intermittent errors like : I/O …

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Linux: is there a read or recv from socket with timeout?

How can I try to read data from socket with timeout? I know, select, pselect, poll, has a timeout field, …

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Turn a simple socket into an SSL socket

I wrote simple C programs, which are using sockets ('client' and 'server'). (UNIX/Linux usage) The server side simply creates …

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