[python] Python socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused

I am trying to write a program for file transfer using sockets. The server end of the code is running fine. However, in the client side I get the following error

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "client.py", line 54, in <module>
uploadFiles(directory)
File "client.py", line 36, in uploadFiles
transferFile(fname)
File "client.py", line 13, in transferFile     
cs.connect((HOST, 36258))
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 224, in meth
return getattr(self._sock,name)(*args)
socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused

My code is as follows

import os
import socket

def transferFile(fname):
   HOST = '127.0.0.1'
   CPORT = 36258
   MPORT = 36250
   FILE = fname
   cs = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
   cs.connect((HOST, 36258))
   cs.send("SEND " + FILE)
   cs.close()
   ms = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
   ms.connect((HOST, MPORT))
   f = open(FILE, "rb")
   data = f.read()
   f.close()
   ms.send(data)
   ms.close()

def uploadFiles(directory):
   home = os.getenv("HOME")
   folder = str(home + "/" + directory)
   os.chdir(folder)
   dirList = os.listdir(folder)
   print dirList
   for fname in dirList:
       if fname.endswith('.bin'):
           transferFile(fname)

os.chdir(os.getenv("HOME"))
directory = "testdownload"
if not os.path.exists(directory):
   os.makedirs(directory)
 os.chdir(directory)

uploadFiles(directory)

I tried looking for help on Google and other posts on Stack Overflow, none of them helped. Can someone please help me? The line numbers may be different since I pasted only some part of the code