TL;DR: client keeps making new connections from different ports even though I am only opening one tab on my client computer.
I wrote the following python multiple-client-proxy socket:
my_socket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
my_socket.bind((IP, PORT))
my_socket.listen(5)
print("-> Waiting for connections...")
while True:
client_socket, address = my_socket.accept()
t.start_new_thread(on_new_client, (client_socket, address))
using this "start_new_thread" method that I saw on some answer here. I was expecting the thread to start and then the program to go to the beginning of the loop and block until another client tries to connect (e.g. another computer or by opening another tab).
But to my surprise, I began to see different connections while using only my one testing client, loading the page only on one tab. They were from my same client but using different client ports.
According to the console, it actually immediately began with 2 connections:
-> Connected to ('10.100.102.10', 51883)
-> Connected to ('10.100.102.10', 51884)
and some more during the serving session:
-> First request is:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: bank.com
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/87.0.4280.88 Safari/537.36
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: he-IL,he;q=0.9,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.7
-> Connected to ('10.100.102.10', 51885)
^(notice this connection message at the end, even after I already got a GET request from one of the other connections)
It is also important to note that I have a message for closing a connection so I'm guessing the problem is not that the other connections closed.
Why does the client keep making new connections from different ports even though I am only opening one tab on my client computer?
