Problem in transfering file from server to client using C sockets
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I want to ask, why I cannot transfer file from server to client? When I start to send the file from server, the client side program will have problem. So, I spend some times to check the code, But I still cannot find out the problem Can anyone point out the problem for me?
CLIENTFILE.C
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include time.h
#include netinet/in.h
#include fcntl.h
#include sys/types.h
#include string.h
#include stdarg.h
#define PORT 5678
#define MLEN 1000
int main(int argc, char *argv [])
{
        int sockfd;
        int number,message;
        char outbuff[MLEN],inbuff[MLEN];
        //char PWD_buffer[_MAX_PATH];
        struct sockaddr_in servaddr;
        FILE *fp;
        int numbytes;  
        char buf[2048];
        if (argc != 2)
                fprintf(stderr, "error");
        if ( (sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
                fprintf(stderr, "socket error");
        memset(&servaddr, 0, sizeof(servaddr));
        servaddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
        servaddr.sin_port = htons(PORT);
        if (connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *) &servaddr, sizeof(servaddr)) < 0)
                fprintf(stderr, "connect error");
        if ( (fp = fopen("/home/na/nall9047/write.txt", "w")) == NULL){
                perror("fopen");
                exit(1);
        }
        printf("Still NO PROBLEM!\n");
        //Receive file from server
        while(1){
                numbytes = read(sockfd, buf, sizeof(buf));
                printf("read %d bytes, ", numbytes);
                if(numbytes == 0){
                        printf("\n");
                        break;
                }
                numbytes = fwrite(buf, sizeof(char), numbytes, fp);
                printf("fwrite %d bytes\n", numbytes);
        }
        fclose(fp);
        close(sockfd); 
        return 0;
}
SERVERFILE.C
#include stdio.h
#include fcntl.h
#include stdlib.h
#include time.h
#include string.h
#include netinet/in.h
#include errno.h
#include sys/types.h
#include sys/socket.h
#includ estdarg.h
#define PORT 5678
#define MLEN 1000
int main(int argc, char *argv [])
{
        int listenfd, connfd;
        int number, message, numbytes;
        int h, i, j, alen;
        int nread;
        struct sockaddr_in servaddr; 
        struct sockaddr_in cliaddr;
        FILE *in_file, *out_file, *fp;
        char buf[4096];
        listenfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0);
        if (listenfd < 0)
                 fprintf(stderr,"listen error") ;
        memset(&servaddr, 0, sizeof(servaddr));
        servaddr.sin_family      = AF_INET;
        servaddr.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
        servaddr.sin_port        = htons(PORT);
        if (bind(listenfd, (struct sockaddr *) &servaddr, sizeof(servaddr)) < 0)
                fprintf(stderr,"bind error") ;
        alen = sizeof(struct sockaddr);
        connfd = accept(listenfd, (struct sockaddr *) &cliaddr, &alen);
        if (connfd < 0)
                fprintf(stderr,"error connecting") ;
        printf("accept one client from %s!\n", inet_ntoa(cliaddr.sin_addr));
        fp = fopen ("/home/na/nall9047/read.txt", "r"); // open file stored in server
        if (fp == NULL) {
                printf("\nfile NOT exist");
        }
        //Sending file
        while(!feof(fp)){
                numbytes = fread(buf, sizeof(char), sizeof(buf), fp);
                printf("fread %d bytes, ", numbytes);
                numbytes = write(connfd, buf, numbytes);
                printf("Sending %d bytes\n",numbytes);
        }
        fclose (fp);    
        close(listenfd);
        close(connfd);
        return 0;
}
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