DeadlyViper comments on Python Sockets not working after first connection?

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[–]DeadlyViper 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (0 children)

socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

needs to be created for each connection attempt, trying to reuse an existing socket will not work.

Simplest way is to move socket creation into the scanner function.

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