Help with Sockets

[Eric]

I have made a variation of while scripts, and a sleep script. I have figured out a good way of taking input, which works. Now what I still can't figure out is how to use sockets.

I want to make my login script so that all user accounts are stored on 1 PC. If anyone wouldn't mind pointing me to a simple sockets tutorial, or explaining them a bit to me, that would be great.

Thanks

Eric

[Felissa]

Here's a tutorial on sockets from Sun's own java site.

• http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...ets/index.html
• http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/j...2-sockets.html
• http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/Java/...mming-in-Java/

Felissa

[Eric]

I read through some of those.
I have my server code here:

Code:

import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
class login {
   private static BufferedReader stdin = 
      new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( System.in ) );



   public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, ServerSocketException, SocketException  {
      ServerSocket server = new ServerSocket(2011, 3);
      Socket incoming = server.accept();
      System.out.println("Socket Opened");
      BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader
         (new InputStreamReader(incoming.getInputStream()));
      PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter
         (incoming.getOutputStream(), true /* autoFlush */);

      boolean done = false;
      while (!done) {
         String line = in.readLine();
         String next = null;
         String[] temp;
         System.out.println(line);
         if (line.trim().equals("login")) {
            next = "login";
            out.println("login");
         } 
         if (line.trim().equals("BYE")) done = true;
         if (next == "login") {
            temp = line.trim().split(":");
            out.println("Welcome " + temp[0]);
         }
      incoming.close();
      }
   }
}

I don't know what I am doing wrong, but it seems to crash right after it prints their message on screen.

I think this is because it is unable to write back to the socket.

Is there a function I should be using other than out.println?

Here is the output from my this script.
Notice I messaged the script a. It also gives the same problem when I message real commands such as login and BYE.

Code:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_01\bin>java login
Socket Opened
a
Exception in thread "main" java.net.SocketException: socket closed
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:129)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.readBytes(StreamDecoder.java:264)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.implRead(StreamDecoder.java:306)
at sun.nio.cs.StreamDecoder.read(StreamDecoder.java:158)
at java.io.InputStreamReader.read(InputStreamReader.java:167)
at java.io.BufferedReader.fill(BufferedReader.java:136)
at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.java:299)
at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.java:362)
at login.main(login.java:21)

Thanks

Eric

[staykovmarin]

You are closing the socket (obviously, judging by the error)

Code:

      while (!done) {
         String line = in.readLine();
         String next = null;
         String[] temp;
         System.out.println(line);
         if (line.trim().equals("login")) {
            next = "login";
            out.println("login");
         } 
         if (line.trim().equals("BYE")) done = true;
         if (next == "login") {
            temp = line.trim().split(":");
            out.println("Welcome " + temp[0]);
         }
      incoming.close();
      }

incoming.close();? You are closing that at the end of the while loop? Should it not be called right AFTER the while loop is done executing? This way you are closing the stream after each time the loop executes, which is not whatyou want.