Unix Stream Socket

Simple python module for creating an unix stream server and client for sending an arbitrary length of data.

Flow of the program, you run the server as a deamon application. Client send a data reqeust wich can be a simple "hello world" string or JSON string. The server handles the data en gives back a response. The response message can also be arbitrary length of data.

Max data size Before the data is send from the client to the server or server to client. A 4 bytes stream is send containing the data size that is going to be send. 4 bytes => 32 bits => 2147483647 bytes (2Gb) is the theoretical max data transfer size.

###Example Server from unixstreamsocket import SocketServer

class UnixServer(SocketServer):
    def __init__(self):
        SocketServer.__init__(self, '/tmp/python_unix_socket_steam.sock')

    def run(self, data, thread):
        #do somthing with data
        print(data)
        
        #return response
        return "okey..."

server = UnixServer()
server.start()

>>> Hello World

###Client from unixstreamsocket import SocketClient

client = SocketClient('/tmp/python_unix_socket_steam.sock')
response = client.sendData("Hello World")
print(response)

>>> okey...

##Other clients At the moment there is only a PHP client, that is also the reason why I created this python module. I needed a way to send data to a python deamon from an PHP page.

###PHP client

require_once 'UnixSocketClient.php';
$socketClient = new UnixSocketClient('/tmp/python_unix_socket_steam.sock');
echo $socketClient->sendData("Hello World");

>>> okey...

##Wish list

• Keeping track of all the ServerThreads, for crasfully closing running threats on shutdown and for closing threads that exceeds the to by set max connection time.