I am trying to send and receive file over TCP with Python. But recv() method get only 4KB of files, rest is discarded. How can ı get all bytes in file?
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The rest is not discarded. You have to loop. – user207421 May 09 '20 at 23:31
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1Does this answer your question? [Python Socket Receive Large Amount of Data](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17667903/python-socket-receive-large-amount-of-data) – metatoaster May 09 '20 at 23:35
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recv is a low-level interface. It will read "bufsize" (defaults to 4k) bytes at a time. You need to keep calling it until it returns zero bytes back to you to get all the data.
See here for more: https://docs.python.org/3/howto/sockets.html#using-a-socket
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