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Time Server Interoperability

Question Text​

Is the protocol between the python server and the python client the same? Can we run the python server and connect to it via the C client?

Question Answers​

  • Yes
  • No, the protocols are different

Feedback​

By doing the same investigation on the python server we discover that the protocol is the same. This means that we can run the python server and the C client, or the C server and python client, and everything will work:

student@os:~/.../support/time-server/python$ python3 server.py
student@os:~/.../support/time-server$ ./client 127.0.0.1 2000
The time is Thu Sep  1 11:48:03 2022