Questions tagged [connection]
Refers to a connection used to transfer data between two endpoints, such as between a client and a web, database, web service or other server.
connection
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How do multiple clients connect simultaneously to one port, say 80, on a server? [duplicate]
I understand the basics of how ports work. However, what I don't get is how multiple clients can simultaneously connect to say port 80. I know each client has a unique (for their machine) port. Does ...
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Artificially create a connection timeout error
I've had a bug in our software that occurs when I receive a connection timeout. These errors are very rare (usually when my connection gets dropped by our internal network). How can I generate this ...
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How to connect to MySQL from the command line
How can you connect to MySQL from the command line in a Mac? (i.e. show me the code)
I'm doing a PHP/SQL tutorial, but it starts by assuming you're already in MySQL.
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Login to Microsoft SQL Server Error: 18456
I am getting this error while trying to connect to the SQL Server.
Microsoft SQL Server Error: 18456
Can anybody tell me what the error code means?
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MySQL show status - active or total connections?
When I run show status like 'Con%' it shows the number of connections, which is 9972 and constantly growing. Is this an active number of connections or connections made in total?
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No internet connection on WSL Ubuntu (Windows Subsystem for Linux) [closed]
Recently I installed WSL Ubuntu 18.04 on my Windows machine, but nothing seems to work properly, because I have no internet access.
I tried a few commands and sudo apt update says 'Connection failed' ...
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What is the difference between connection and read timeout for sockets?
3 questions:
What is the difference between connection and read timeout for sockets?
What does connection timeout set to "infinity" mean? In what situation can it remain in an infinitive loop? and ...
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How to create user for a db in postgresql? [closed]
I have installed PostgreSQL 8.4 on my CentOS server and connected to root user from shell and accessing the PostgreSQL shell.
I created the database and user in PostgreSQL.
While trying to connect ...
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How do I start Mongo DB from Windows?
I have installed MongoDB on my Windows 7 (64 bit) machine. I have created the path data/db too but when I tried to start mongodb using the command 'C:\mongodb\bin\mongod.exe', it is not starting. It ...
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java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
I am getting the following error trying to read from a socket. I'm doing a readInt() on that InputStream, and I am getting this error. Perusing the documentation suggests that the client part of the ...
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How to detect the physical connected state of a network cable/connector?
In a Linux environment, I need to detect the physical connected or disconnected state of an RJ45 connector to its socket. Preferably using BASH scripting only.
The following solutions which have ...
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Using R to download zipped data file, extract, and import data
@EZGraphs on Twitter writes:
"Lots of online csvs are zipped. Is there a way to download, unzip the archive, and load the data to a data.frame using R? #Rstats"
I was also trying to do this today, ...
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Python [Errno 98] Address already in use
In my Python socket program, I sometimes need to interrupt it with Ctrl-C. When I do this, it does close the connection using socket.close().
However, when I try to reopen it I have to wait what ...
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iPhone Simulator - Simulate a slow connection?
Is there a way to slow down the internet connection to the iPhone Simulator, so as to mimic how the App might react when you are in a slow spot on the cellular network?
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"The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send." With SSL Certificate
Issue
I get this exception
The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.
in my logs, and it is breaking our OEM integration with our e-mail marketing system at random ...
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Draw a connecting line between two elements [closed]
How can I draw a line between two or more elements to connect them? Any combination of HTML/CSS/JavaScript/SVG/Canvas is fine.
If your answer supports any of these, then do mention it:
draggable ...
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How to test an Internet connection with bash?
How can an internet connection be tested without pinging some website?
I mean, what if there is a connection but the site is down? Is there a check for a connection with the world?
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How to grant remote access permissions to mysql server for user?
If I do SHOW GRANTS in my mysql database I get
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost'
IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD 'some_characters'
WITH GRANT OPTION
If I am not mistaken, root@...
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How to create a bash script to check the SSH connection?
I am in the process of creating a bash script that would log into the remote machines and create private and public keys.
My problem is that the remote machines are not very reliable, and they are ...
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MySQL connection not working: 2002 No such file or directory
I'm trying to set up WordPress. I have Apache and MySQL running, and the accounts and database are all set up. I tried to make a simple connection:
<?php
$conn = mysql_connect('localhost', '...
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How to fix HttpException: Connection closed before full header was received
I have recently upgraded my flutter version in my app. But when I want to debug the application, it shows me the following error.
Error connecting to the service protocol: HttpException: Connection ...
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How to determine total number of open/active connections in ms sql server 2005
My PHP/MS Sql Server 2005/win 2003 Application occasionally becomes very unresponsive, the memory/cpu usage does not spike. If i try to open any new connection from sql management studio, then the it ...
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How to close idle connections in PostgreSQL automatically?
Some clients connect to our postgresql database but leave the connections opened.
Is it possible to tell Postgresql to close those connection after a certain amount of inactivity ?
TL;DR
IF you're ...
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Setting up connection string in ASP.NET to SQL SERVER
I'm trying to set up a connecting string in my web.config file (Visual Studio 2008/ASP.NET 3.5) to a local server (SQL server 2008).
In my web.config, how and where do I place the connection string?
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Why would a "java.net.ConnectException: Connection timed out" exception occur when URL is up?
I'm getting a ConnectException: Connection timed out with some frequency from my code. The URL I am trying to hit is up. The same code works for some users, but not others. It seems like once one ...
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How can I programmatically remove the 2 connection limit in WebClient
Those "fine" RFCs mandate from every RFC-client that they beware of not using more than 2 connections per host...
Microsoft implemented this in WebClient. I know that it can be turned off with
App....
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How to close a mongodb python connection?
I'm doing a python script that writes some data to a mongodb.
I need to close the connection and free some resources, when finishing.
How is that done in Python?
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In Java when does a URL connection close?
When does java let go of a connections to a URL? I don't see a close() method on either URL or URLConnection so does it free up the connection as soon as the request finishes? I'm mainly asking to see ...
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Instantly detect client disconnection from server socket
How can I detect that a client has disconnected from my server?
I have the following code in my AcceptCallBack method
static Socket handler = null;
public static void AcceptCallback(IAsyncResult ar)
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Apache Server (xampp) doesn't run on Windows 10 (Port 80)
I have installed the Windows 10 Insider Program. Everything works, except Apache. When I try to start it, it says that port 80 is blocked. Is there a way to unblock it or tell Apache to use another ...
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mySQL Error 1040: Too Many Connection
How to fix these, "SQL Error 1040: Too Many Connection"
even I try to put
max_user_connection=500
still "Too many connection"
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How to check if a socket is connected/disconnected in C#?
How can you check if a network socket (System.Net.Sockets.Socket) is still connected if the other host doesn't send you a packet when it disconnects (e.g. because it disconnected ungracefully)?
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AWS EC2 Connection closed by when trying ssh into instance
Recently I set up a new EC2 instance. The next day I was not able to connect to my instance via ssh. I could connect and disconnect the day before, I am sure I did nothing. Here is ssh debug info:
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Failed to connect to mysql at 127.0.0.1:3306 with user root access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'(using password:YES)
I've been trying to create a new database connection on workbench. However, every time I test a connection there is an error message that says
Failed to connect to mysql at 127.0.0.1:3306 with user ...
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How do I connect to mongodb with node.js (and authenticate)?
How do I connect to mongodb with node.js?
I have the node-mongodb-native driver.
There's apparently 0 documentation.
Is it something like this?
var mongo = require('mongodb/lib/mongodb');
var Db= ...
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How to kill MySQL connections
I'm building a website with MySQL. I'm using TOAD for MySQL and suddenly I can't connect to the database as I'm getting an error:
"Too many connections"
Is there any way in Toad for MySQL to view ...
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java.sql.SQLException: Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
The following code:
Class.forName("com.mysql.jdbc.Driver");
Connection m_connection = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://localhost","root","root");
Throws this exception on getConnection():
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HttpClient 4.0.1 - how to release connection? [duplicate]
I have a loop over a bunch of URLs, for each one I'm doing the following:
private String doQuery(String url) {
HttpGet httpGet = new HttpGet(url);
setDefaultHeaders(httpGet); // static method
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How do I shut down a Node.js http(s) server immediately?
I have a Node.js application that contains an http(s) server.
In a specific case, I need to shut down this server programmatically. What I am currently doing is calling its close() function, but this ...
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How to check if internet connection is present in Java?
How do you check if you can connect to the internet via java? One way would be:
final URL url = new URL("http://www.google.com");
final URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
... if we got here, ...
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urllib3 connectionpool - Connection pool is full, discarding connection
Does seeing the
urllib3.connectionpool WARNING - Connection pool is full, discarding connection
mean that I am effectively loosing data (because of lost connection)
OR
Does it mean that connection ...
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How to increase the timeout for `yarn install`
I'm currently using Yarn on a very unstable internet connection.
Sometimes it takes hours until I can finally download all the packages.
I noticed Yarn retries the download when there is some kind of ...
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Cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using old authentication
I'm trying to connect to a mySQL database at http://bluesql.net, but when I try to connect, it gives this error:
Connect Error (2000) mysqlnd cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using old authentication
I'...
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Hibernate Slow to Acquire Postgres Connection
I'm having a really difficult time debugging this problem. Whenever I try to establish a connection with postgres, it takes a whole minute. After the connection is established, everything is fine. I'...
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Is it safe to use a static java.sql.Connection instance in a multithreaded system?
I'm running a web application on Tomcat. I have a class that handles all DB queries.
This class contains the Connection object and methods that returns query results.
This is the connection object:
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What is the functionality of setSoTimeout and how it works?
I'm trying to learn Socket and I'm confused by following text from Oracle's website:
setSoTimeout
public void setSoTimeout(int timeout) throws SocketException
Enable/disable SO_TIMEOUT with the ...
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Android event for internet connectivity state change [duplicate]
I am making an app where a user is uploading information and files to my server on a somewhat frequent basis. This is done in new threads through a dedicated uploader service.
I know from this ...
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How to limit speed of internet connection on Android emulator?
I need to test app for work with slow internet connection.
How to simulate slow internet connection on Android emulator?
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Oracle - What TNS Names file am I using?
Sometimes I get Oracle connection problems because I can't figure out which tnsnames.ora file my database client is using.
What's the best way to figure this out? ++happy for various platform ...
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CodeIgniter: Unable to connect to your database server using the provided settings Error Message
I have been using CI just fine using the MySQL driver. I want to use the MySQL driver instead, but as soon as I change it (just add the ‘i’ at the end of MySQL, and added the port number) I get the ...