HI

    I am getting error BROKEN PIPE in Linux C Sokcet programming.

     i have written simple client-server program using socket.
        pls help me.
          The Code of programm is as follows.


/////////////////////////// server.c////////////////////////////////
main()
{
    int server_sockfd,client_sockfd,server_len,client_len;

    struct sockaddr_in server_address;
    struct sockaddr_in client_address;

    unlink("server_socket");

    server_sockfd = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);

    server_address.sin_family =AF_INET;
        server_address.sin_addr.s_addr=inet_addr("localhos t");
    server_address.sin_port=9700;
    server_len=sizeof(server_address);
    bind(server_sockfd,(struct sockaddr *) &
    server_address,server_len);

    listen(server_sockfd,5);
    while(1)
    {
        char ch;
        printf("\n Server Waiting...\n");


        client_len=sizeof(client_address);
        client_sockfd=accept (server_sockfd,(struct sockaddr *) &
client_address,(socklen_t *)&client_len);


    read(client_sockfd,&ch,1);
    ch++;

    write(client_sockfd,&ch,1);
    close(client_sockfd);

    }

}

////////////////////// client.c////////////////////////////////////

main()
{


    int sockfd,len,result;
    struct sockaddr_in address;
    char ch='a';

    sockfd=socket(AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);

    address.sin_family=AF_INET;
    address.sin_addr.s_addr=inet_addr("localhost");
    address.sin_port=9734;

    len=sizeof(address);


    result=connect(sockfd,(struct sockaddr *) &address,len);

    if(result==-1)
    {
        printf("Error Client");

    }


    write(sockfd,&ch,1);
    read(sockfd,&ch,1);

    printf("char from server = %c",ch);
    close(sockfd);



}

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Hi Ankur,

U seem to be a little confused with socket programming... in the connect system call u have to give the details regarding the server... hence u have to give the same port number as the one the server is listening to...

int connect(int sockfd, struct sockaddr *serv_addr, int addrlen);

A piece of advice to u... one basic idea of using sockets is to let 2 machines communicate with each other. Hence u shudnot use "localhost" to specify the IP address of the server... good practice wud be to send the server address as the argument to the client process or even better wud be to have a configuration file which contains the details of the server like the address and the port it is running on....


This code work now.... (note the changes made is only the port number at the client side)



/* Server program */

main()
{
    int server_sockfd, client_sockfd, server_len, client_len;

    struct sockaddr_in server_address;
    struct sockaddr_in client_address;

// unlink("server_socket"); /* Don't kno y u've used this. so commented it :) */

    server_sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

    server_address.sin_family = AF_INET;
    server_address.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
    server_address.sin_port = 9700;
    server_len = sizeof (server_address);

    bind (server_sockfd, (struct sockaddr *) &server_address, server_len);

    listen (server_sockfd, 5);
    while (1) {
        char ch;
        printf ("\n Server Waiting...\n");

        client_len = sizeof (client_address);
        client_sockfd = accept (server_sockfd,
                (struct sockaddr *) &client_address, (socklen_t *) &client_len);

        read(client_sockfd,&ch,1);
        ch++;

        write(client_sockfd,&ch,1);
        close(client_sockfd);
    }
}


/* Client program */

main()
{
    int sockfd, len;
    struct sockaddr_in address;
    char ch = 'a';

    sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);

    address.sin_family = AF_INET;
    address.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY; /* Give the server address here when running on 2 different machines */
    address.sin_port = 9700;

    len = sizeof(address);

    if (connect (sockfd, (struct sockaddr *) &address, len) == -1) {
        printf("Error Client");
    }

    write (sockfd, &ch, 1);
    read (sockfd, &ch, 1);

    printf ("char from server = %c", ch);
    close (sockfd);
}

Hope this helps u out in ur problem,
Cherub