["python","sockets"]
Python Socket Receive Large Amount of Data

When I try to receive larger amounts of data it gets cut off and I have to press enter to get the rest of the data. At first I was able to increase it a little bit but it still won't receive all of it. As you can see I have increased the buffer on the conn.recv() but it still doesn't get all of the data. It cuts it off at a certain point. I have to press enter on my raw_input in order to receive the rest of the data. Is there anyway I can get all of the data at once? Here's the code. port = 7777 sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM) sock.bind(('0.0.0.0', port)) sock.listen(1) print ("Listening on port: "+str(port)) while 1: conn, sock_addr = sock.accept() print "accepted connection from", sock_addr while 1: command = raw_input('shell> ') conn.send(command) data = conn.recv(8000) if not data: break print data, conn.close()
TCP/IP is a stream-based protocol, not a message-based protocol. There's no guarantee that every send() call by one peer results in a single recv() call by the other peer receiving the exact data sent—it might receive the data piece-meal, split across multiple recv() calls, due to packet fragmentation. You need to define your own message-based protocol on top of TCP in order to differentiate message boundaries. Then, to read a message, you continue to call recv() until you've read an entire message or an error occurs. One simple way of sending a message is to prefix each message with its length. Then to read a message, you first read the length, then you read that many bytes. Here's how you might do that: def send_msg(sock, msg): # Prefix each message with a 4-byte length (network byte order) msg = struct.pack('>I', len(msg)) + msg sock.sendall(msg) def recv_msg(sock): # Read message length and unpack it into an integer raw_msglen = recvall(sock, 4) if not raw_msglen: return None msglen = struct.unpack('>I', raw_msglen)[0] # Read the message data return recvall(sock, msglen) def recvall(sock, n): # Helper function to recv n bytes or return None if EOF is hit data = bytearray() while len(data) < n: packet = sock.recv(n - len(data)) if not packet: return None data.extend(packet) return data Then you can use the send_msg and recv_msg functions to send and receive whole messages, and they won't have any problems with packets being split or coalesced on the network level.