Just can't open serverSocket

[Isaac Jones]

Hi,
I just can't get this to work. It never opens the ServerSocket (doesn't matter which port). It seems to me that it never gets in the try-function. What am i doing wrong? has anyone an idea?
thanks for your answers.

Here is the code:

 
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.Button;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.Label;
import java.awt.Panel;
import java.awt.TextArea;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
 
import netscape.javascript.JSObject;
 
/*
 * Created on Apr 30, 2004
 *
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 */
 
/**
 * @author FC071692
 *
 * To change the template for this generated type comment go to
 * Window>Preferences>Java>Code Generation>Code and Comments
 */
public class Client extends Applet implements ActionListener
{ 
private TextArea textArea = null;

public Client()
{
super();
}

/* (non-Javadoc)
 * @see java.applet.Applet#init()
 */
public void init()
{
super.init();

setLayout(new GridLayout(1,1));
Panel panel = new Panel(new GridLayout(3,1));
Label label = new Label("Messenge");
Button button = new Button("Open Window");
panel.add(label);
textArea = new TextArea(10,20);
textArea.append("\n");
panel.add(textArea);
panel.add(button);
add(panel);
setSize(200, 300);
button.addActionListener(this);
}

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event){
connect2Server();
}

private String MyIP()
{
String s1 = "unknown";
String s2 = getDocumentBase().getHost();
int i = 80;
if(getDocumentBase().getPort() != -1)
i = getDocumentBase().getPort();
try
{
String s = (new Socket(s2, i)).getLocalAddress().getHostAddress();
if(!s.equals("255.255.255.255"))
s1 = s;
}
catch(SecurityException _ex)
{
s1 = "FORBIDDEN";
}
catch(Exception _ex)
{
s1 = "ERROR";
}

//if(flag)
//try
//{
//s1 = (new Socket(s2, i)).getLocalAddress().getHostName();
//}
//catch(Exception _ex)
//{
//System.out.println("Cannot Lookup this IP");
//}

return s1;
}

public void connect2Server() 
{
try 
{
//InetAddress localhost = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
//String myIp  =   localhost.getHostAddress();
String myIP = MyIP();

String connectionInfo[] = { myIP, "test" };
this.getTextArea().append("Got IP:" + myIP + "\n");

Socket socket = new Socket("127.0.0.1", 8051);

PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream()), true);

int x = 0;

while(x < 2) 
{
String info = connectionInfo[x] + "\n";
out.write(info);
this.getTextArea().append("\n" + x + "." + connectionInfo[x]);
x++;
}

this.getTextArea().append("connection established 1");

out.close();
socket.close();
//socket = null;

String line = null;
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();

try
{
ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(8045);
Socket clientSocket = null;
this.getTextArea().append("Serversocket auf port 8045 created");

boolean flag = true;

while(flag)
{
clientSocket = serverSocket.accept();
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream()));

while((line = bufferedReader.readLine())!=null)
{
buffer.append(line);
}

this.getTextArea().append(buffer.toString());
}

clientSocket.close();
} 
catch (IOException e)
{
buffer.append(e.getMessage());
}
  
this.getTextArea().append("bottom of function");
} 
catch (IOException e) 
{ 
this.getTextArea().append("Can't open socket\n"); 
}
}
 
/**
 * @return
 */
public TextArea getTextArea()
{
return textArea;
}
}
 
 

[sander hautvast]

do you get an exception?

[sander hautvast]

just curious: why do you want to open a serversocket in a client (applet)?

a "normal" configuraton would be a serversocket on the server (opened outside the applet) and applet clients connecting to it.

are client and server on same host? If not check listening ports on the client. you just might see a listen state on the port you specified.

or am i missing the point??

[Isaac Jones]

no nothing. I've even put that part in a different function and called it from the function connect2server but it doesn't change anything. if no idea what the problem could be.

[Isaac Jones]

well... i'm trying to program a messenger (thin-client). when you start the applet your information will be sent to the server (username, ip). the server should connect than back to the client so that you can transfer messages with other users later on.

[sander hautvast]

ok, have you checked that the applet is allowed to open ServerSockets?
[ June 28, 2004: Message edited by: sander hautvast ]

[Isaac Jones]

no i haven't. but that shouldn't be the problem because the applet is running on my machine (local).

[sander hautvast]

i don't think anything's wrong with your code. it works with me (i removed the connect to port 8051).

using:
this.getTextArea().append("Can't open socket\n"+e.getClass().getName()+":"+e.getMessage());

instead of
this.getTextArea().append("Can't open socket\n");

should give you an exception. maybe the port is in use.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Note that applets are prevented from opening server sockets by the default Java security policy in place in all web browsers and the Java plug-in. Changing this from the default is a very bad idea -- would you want the computers at your organization to download code over the network which could then set up a wares server/spam slave/whatever on every desktop in the company?

It's reasonably safe to enable this capability based on digital signatures; this is a fairly large topic.

Anyway, you don't need to have the applet open a server socket to be a chat client. No existing chat clients work this way. Sockets are full-duplex connections -- if a client opens a connection to a server, then the client can send data to the server, and the server can send data to the client.

[Isaac Jones]

ok, i see. this would explain why nothing happens when i call the function openServerSocket() in the applet.
I understand how i can connect and send messages to the server. But how can the server pass the messages on to another client?
When a client connects to the server for the first time, i send the clients username and ip to the server. this information is saved in a hashtable. do i even need this information? or how can i identify all those clients? since it's a messenger and not a chatroom i only want to pass the information on to one specific client. How would you realize that?