Sending a file over TCP sockets in Python

Remove below code

s.send("Hello server!")

because your sending s.send("Hello server!") to server, so your output file is somewhat more in size.


Client need to notify that it finished sending, using socket.shutdown (not socket.close which close both reading/writing part of the socket):

...
print "Done Sending"
s.shutdown(socket.SHUT_WR)
print s.recv(1024)
s.close()

UPDATE

Client sends Hello server! to the server; which is written to the file in the server side.

s.send("Hello server!")

Remove above line to avoid it.


You can send some flag to stop while loop in server

for example

Server side:

import socket
s = socket.socket()
s.bind(("localhost", 5000))
s.listen(1)
c,a = s.accept()
filetodown = open("img.png", "wb")
while True:
   print("Receiving....")
   data = c.recv(1024)
   if data == b"DONE":
           print("Done Receiving.")
           break
   filetodown.write(data)
filetodown.close()
c.send("Thank you for connecting.")
c.shutdown(2)
c.close()
s.close()
#Done :)

Client side:

import socket
s = socket.socket()
s.connect(("localhost", 5000))
filetosend = open("img.png", "rb")
data = filetosend.read(1024)
while data:
    print("Sending...")
    s.send(data)
    data = filetosend.read(1024)
filetosend.close()
s.send(b"DONE")
print("Done Sending.")
print(s.recv(1024))
s.shutdown(2)
s.close()
#Done :)