Python, socket.error: [Errno 10049]

Question

Working on a base for a simple chat client, and got the following error:
socket.error: [Errno 10049] The requested address is not valid in its context

The code is:

from socket import *
HOST = ''
PORT = 8000
s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
i = True
while i is True:
    msg = raw_input("Write A MSG: ")
    s.send(msg)
    print "Awaiting reply"
    reply = s.recv(1024)
    print "Recived: ", repr(reply)

s.close()

Thanks for helping.

Answer 1

The error is:

...
s.connect((HOST, PORT))

And it is because HOST = "" . You may use HOST = "" when binding sockets. But when connecting, you should use HOST = "localhost" or HOST = "someaddr.com" .

Answer 2

IP address ( HOST ) is not correct. If you want to access it from local computer you can use '127.0.0.1' or 'localhost' . To access from anywhere use '0.0.0.0' .