# Socket library

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/socket-library/8465>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [May 18, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/socket-library/8465 "2014-05-18T15:14:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![carlos.ruiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@carlos.ruiz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/carlos.ruiz)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2014, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/socket-library/8465/1 "2014-05-18T15:14:25Z")

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Good day!

Excuse my insistence, but there is some way to make a socket communication by TCP / IP.

There is a library in Python socket call, the same can be done in ignition?

My thinking is to bind a java application with netbeans in ignition.

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**Author:** ![carlos.ruiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7feea3/32.png) [@carlos.ruiz](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/carlos.ruiz)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/socket-library/8465/2 "2014-05-19T02:42:22Z")

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eh already managed to create the server, but what is the customer realmene desire to send me the data to a server, the only thing I want is to send a string every time I press a button

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**Author:** ![Duffanator](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/duffanator/32/3560_2.png) [@Duffanator](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Duffanator)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/socket-library/8465/3 "2014-05-19T14:10:27Z")

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See [this](http://www.inductiveautomation.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=11549&p=41386&hilit=marquee#p41386) post. There is a code snippet there about sending ASCII string characters over Ethernet with some Python coding. You could probably use that to do what you want.