Handling stateful protocols

The HTTP protocol supports persistent connections that reuse the same underlying TCP/IP connection for multiple request/response pairs. Sometimes you need to persist session cookies across requests. There are still a lot of network protocols that use a persistent TCP/IP connection for multiple asynchronous requests and responses. One way or another, there are times when you need to build a multi-threaded Tuxedo server.

To keep our examples simple, we will use a simple TCP/IP connection and for each character the server receives, it will reply with the same uppercase character. It will be our TCP/IP TOUPPER service. Here is the code for toupper.py, which listens on port 8765:

import socket
sock = socket.socket()
sock.bind(("", 8765))
sock.listen(1)
while True:
    con, _ = sock.accept()
    while True:
        c = con.recv(1024)
     &...