Python Network Programming

How to do it...

As seen in the previous socket server based on ForkingMixIn, ThreadingMixIn socket server will follow the same coding pattern of an echo server except for a few things. First, our ThreadedTCPServer will inherit from TCPServer and TheadingMixIn. This multi-threaded version will launch a new thread when a client connects to it. Some more details can be found at http://docs.python.org/2/library/socketserver.html.

The request handler class of our socket server, ForkingServerRequestHandler, sends the echo back to the client from a new thread. You can check the thread information here. For the sake of simplicity, we put the client code in a function instead of a class. The client code creates the client socket and sends the message ...