Python: Multi-threaded JSON Echo Server

php-json-echo-client.php

<?php 
/**
 *
 * PHP JSON Echo Server client
 *
*/

// python server socket
$socket = socket_create(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, SOL_TCP);
socket_connect($socket, 'localhost', 5555);

//Create a message, and send it to the server on $socket.
$data = array(
    'username' => 'sysadmin',
    'key' => '093ufj408xr0289u3r0x9u2m309x',
    'action' => 'login',
);

$json = json_encode($data);

socket_send($socket, $json, strlen($json), MSG_EOF);

$data = socket_read($socket, 65535);

$object = json_decode($data);

if($object->status) {
    echo '<p>Data received successfully.';
} else {
    echo '<p>Error. Data not read correctly!';
}

echo '<p>'.$data;

//Close the socket.
socket_close($socket);

python-multithreaded-echo-server.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# a simple multi-threaded TCP Echo server

from socket import *
import threading
import thread
import time
import json

def handler(clientsock,addr):
    while 1:
        time.sleep(2)
        data = clientsock.recv(65535);
        if not data:
            break
        object = json.loads(data)
        object['status'] = 1
        object['timestamp'] = time.time()
        output = json.dumps(object)        
        msg = output
        clientsock.send(msg)
    clientsock.close()
    
if __name__ == '__main__':
    HOST = 'localhost'
    PORT = 5555
    BUFSIZ = 65535
    ADDR = (HOST, PORT)
    
    serversock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM)
    serversock.bind(ADDR)
    serversock.listen(5)
    
    while 1:
        print 'waiting for connection...'
        clientsock, addr = serversock.accept()
        print '...connected from: ', addr
        thread.start_new_thread(handler, (clientsock, addr))