File Transfer Using Socket Programming

A simple client-server program to transfer files between computers as bytes (NOT TCP).

Dependencies

It is preferred to first create a virtual environment and run it in that. (Optional)

pip install virtualenv

python -m virtualenv sockets

Run this to activate the environment

./sockets/Scripts/activate.ps1

or whatever shell it is being run on.

Open the terminal and run

pip install -r requirements.txt

Run server.py on the first machine.
Run client.py on the second machine.
Enter the server machine's IP address when prompted in the client machine
Type the name of the file along with the extension to transfer the file from the server machine to the client machine.

Developed on python 3.8.10, but should work for older versions of python as well.