Socket Communication

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In the telnet window, type in the following text:

Fish, I love you and respect you very much.
But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
.

The text will be reversed and returned back from the ReverseEchoer:

Welcome to Reverse Echo Server. Please type in some words.
.hcum yrev uoy tcepser dna uoy evol I ,hsiF
.sdne yad siht erofeb daed uoy llik lliw I tuB
.

Note that the telnet program is not displaying text you typed in. It only displays the text received from ReverseEchoer program.

SocketClient - A Simple Client Socket Application

Instead of using the telnet program, we can use the following simple socket application to communicate with ReverseEchoer:

/**
 * SocketClient.java
 * Copyright (c) 2002 by Dr. Herong Yang
 */
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
public class SocketClient {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
         System.in));
      PrintStream out = System.out;   	
      try {
         Socket c = new Socket("localhost",8888);
         printSocketInfo(c);
         BufferedWriter w = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(
            c.getOutputStream()));
         BufferedReader r = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
            c.getInputStream()));
         String m = null;
         while ((m=r.readLine())!= null) {
            out.println(m);
            m = in.readLine();
            w.write(m,0,m.length());
            w.newLine();
            w.flush();
         }
         w.close();
         r.close();
         c.close();
      } catch (IOException e) {
         System.err.println(e.toString());
      }
   }
   private static void printSocketInfo(Socket s) {
      System.out.println("Remote address = "
         +s.getInetAddress().toString());
      System.out.println("Remote port = "
         +s.getPort());
      System.out.println("Local socket address = "
         +s.getLocalSocketAddress().toString());
      System.out.println("Local address = "
         +s.getLocalAddress().toString());
      System.out.println("Local port = "
         +s.getLocalPort());
   }
}

Note that:

• The constructor used to instantiate the socket also performs the functions of bind() and connect().

Now, run ReverseEchoer first, then run SocketClient in a separate command window. If you type in the same text as in the previous test, you will get the following output:

Remote address = localhost/127.0.0.1
Remote port = 8888
Local socket address = /127.0.0.1:1073
Local address = /127.0.0.1
Local port = 1073
Welcome to Reverse Echo Server. Please type in some words.
Fish, I love you and respect you very much.
.hcum yrev uoy tcepser dna uoy evol I ,hsiF
But I will kill you dead before this day ends.
.sdne yad siht erofeb daed uoy llik lliw I tuB
.

Note that socket constructor automatically picked up a free local port, 1073.

ReverseEchoServer - A Simple Multi-Connection Socket Server

ReverseEchoer runs perfectly if there is only one client program talking to it. If we run another copy of SocketClient, while a copy of SocketClient is running and connected to ReverseEchoer, the second copy of SocketClient will not be able establish a communication link with ReverseEchoer, because it is busy with the first copy of SocketClient.

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