How can I reconnect a socket after a broken pipe?

Question

The program connects to a server, and when the connection is closed by the server, if I try to reconnect it says: socket.error: [Errno 9] Bad file descriptor
If I close the socket in the client and then i try to reconnect, it says: socket.error: [Errno 106] Transport endpoint is already connected.

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Is there a way to reconnect it after a broken pipe without creating a new socket?

import socket
host = '127.0.0.1'
port = 1337
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
def loop():
 try:
 while 1:
 print s.recv(512)
 except socket.error:
 #s.close()?
 connect()
def connect():
 s.connect((host, port))
 loop()
connect()

Answer 1

Assuming this is a connection oriented socket:

No. You have to close the old one and create a new socket,

• Edward Garson: The reason for this is that a socket connection is managed at the operating-system level (and, this goes for any programming language). Under Linux, a file descriptor is allocated for the connection which is destroyed when the connection is closed, so you need to reconnect which creates a new file descriptor.

Answer 2

If the file descriptor is bad then you will need to release that resource and create a new socket. This will get you a new file descriptor.

If the connection terminated abnormally, you will have to wait for the server to close it's end of the connection before you can reconnect. I would just poll it frequently (but not too frequently) to see if you can reestablish a connection with your new socket.

How often do you get the bad pipe error?

• jack-all-trades: I get the error when i close the connection in the server. What im wondering if is there a way to recconect to the server with the same socket.