On 16 Gen, 08:10, TechieInsights <gdoerm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am having problems with a socket connection to a Java server. In > java I just open the socket, pass the length and then pass the bits > across the socket. > > I created a socket object: > > import socket > > class MySocket: > def __init__(self, host='localhost', port = 28192, buffsize = 1024): > socket.setdefaulttimeout(10) > > self.host = host > self.port = port > self.buffsize = buffsize > self.socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, > socket.SOCK_STREAM) > self.socket.connect((host, port)) > > def send(self, data): > self.socket.send(data) > > def receive(self): > return self.socket.recv(self.buffsize) > > def sendAndReceive(self, data): > self.send(data) > return self.receive() > > def close(self): > self.socket.close() > > But the java server gives the error: > WARNING: <Incoming> Message length invalid. Discarding > > The data is of type string (xml). Am I doing something wrong? I know > you have to reverse the bits when communicating from C++ to Java. > Could this be the problem? I figured it would not because it said the > length was invalid. I just started looking at python sockets > tonight... and I don't have a real deep base with socket connections > as it is... any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Greg
What is the server protocol? What are you sending? Saying 'xml' is not enough to understand the problem ... byte order could be a problem only if the message include binary representations of 2-bytes or 4-bytes integer. With XML this should not be the case Ciao ---- FB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
