Socket error

Hi,

I'm very new to socket communication( i started learning yesterday ). I tried to
make a little program myself. The only thing it does is a socket who tells a serversocket the connection succeeded and otherwise.

I ran the program on one computer, everything works fine, but when i want to run it on two computers, my program blocks in the Socket constructor, and after 10 seconds i get a ConnectionException.

Here is the code:

The server main class:

Code:

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import java.io.IOException;

public class ServerMain {
       
        public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
                new ServerSocketClass( );
        }

}

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The server socket class :

Code:

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import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;

public class ServerSocketClass {
        protected ServerSocket server;
        protected int listenPort;
       
        public ServerSocketClass( ) throws IOException {
                super( );
                listenPort = 5600;
                server = new ServerSocket( listenPort );
                acceptConnections( );
        }
       
        public void acceptConnections( ) {
                new Thread( new Runnable( ) {       
                        @Override
                        public void run() {
                                startAccepting( );
                        }
                }).start( );
        }
       
        protected void startAccepting( ) {
                System.out.println( "aanhet wachten" );
                while( true ) {
                        try {
                                Socket incoming = server.accept( );
                                System.out.println( "Er is een socket binnengekomen" );
                                handleIncomingSocket( incoming );
                        } catch (IOException e) {
                                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                                e.printStackTrace();
                        }
                }
        }

        protected void handleIncomingSocket( Socket incoming ) {
                new Thread( new SocketHandler( incoming ) ).start( );
        }
       
       
}

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The SocketHandler class:

Code:

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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.Socket;

public class SocketHandler implements Runnable {

        private Socket socket;
        public SocketHandler( Socket socket ) {
                super( );
                this.socket = socket;
        }
        public void run( ) {
                OutputStream output;
                try {
                        output = socket.getOutputStream( );
                PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter( output );
                BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( socket.getInputStream( ) ) );
                System.out.println( reader.readLine( ) );
                writer.write( "Connectie terug geslaagd" );
                writer.flush( );
                output.close( );
                } catch (IOException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                }
        }
       
        public Socket getSocket( ) {
                return socket;
        }

}

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The ClientMain class :

Code:

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public class ClientMain {
        public static void main( String[] args) {
                new SocketConnectionToServerTest( );
        }
}

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and finally, the SocketConnectionToServerTest class:

Code:

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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;
public class SocketConnectionToServerTest {
        protected Socket connectionSocket;
       
        public SocketConnectionToServerTest( ) {
                super( );
                try {
                        connectionSocket = new Socket( "127.0.0.1", 5600 );
                } catch (UnknownHostException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                }
                makeContactToServer( );
        }
       
        public void makeContactToServer( ) {
                try {
                        OutputStream output = connectionSocket.getOutputStream( );
                        BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( connectionSocket.getInputStream( ) ) );
                        PrintWriter writer = new PrintWriter( output );
                        writer.println( "Connectie gelukt" );
                        writer.flush( );
                        System.out.println( reader.readLine( ) );
                        output.close( );
                        writer.close( );
                        reader.close( );
                } catch (IOException e) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                        e.printStackTrace();
                } 
        }
}

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These are the classes. I get the error on line 18 in class SocketConnectionToServerTest( the socket constructor). I've tried some things, but it didn't work.

Any suggestions?

Hannes

for someone who just started learning about sockets your code is surprisingly good.

and it should work... weird that it doesn't.

what does the exception say?

I've tested the program a couple of times now, and there is something curious about it. I have two computers, one upstairs and one downstairs. When i run my serversocket upstairs i get and my normal socket downstairs, i get an error, but
when i run my serversocket downstairs and my normal socket upstairs, everything works fine.

Maybe it is a kind of firewall problem?

Hannes

sounds like it is, considering it does work in some scenarios and not others. Check the firewall settings upstairs.

I don't know very much about firewall, so i don't know what to do with it. Can you tell me some things that should be on/off for this program?

Hannes

Quote:

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Originally Posted by hannes

Maybe it is a kind of firewall problem?

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if you're connected through a router you must anable port-forwarding to the host where the server is running.

Thanks for you posts, but i don't think that is the problem. My friend is also a programmer, and he wrote a short program for me to test. His program works fine( i can connect from downstairs to upstairs and from upstairs to downstairs).

Now, i'm realy confused about what the error could be. Any suggestions about this?

Hannes

Quote:

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Originally Posted by hannes

Any suggestions about this?

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i guess the exception is thrown because you try to construct the socket before the server is running. so you get a connection refused. i did the following. in ServerSocketClass i inserted the following code and the end

Code:

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        public static void main(String[] args) {
                try {
                new ServerSocketClass();
                } catch (Exception ex) {
                        ex.printStackTrace();
                }
        }

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so that the server can be started with java ServerSocketClass.

create a new project and create the java file SocketConnectionToServerTest.java with the code but put this code at the end, so that it will start:

Code:

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        public static void main(String[] args) {
                new SocketConnectionToServerTest();
        }

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now if the server is running and you start SocketConnectionToServerTest with java SocketConnectionToServerTest you will get

Quote:

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aanhet wachten
Er is een socket binnengekomen
Connectie gelukt

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and no exception is thrown. if you run your server on an other machine then don't forget to change the ip-adress in SocketConnectionToServerTest in the line connectionSocket = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 5600);

i don't know if the code running corretly, but you get no exception.