Benjamin Bentmann created HTTPCLIENT-1188:
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             Summary: HTTP client does not monitor connection for error status 
while sending request body
                 Key: HTTPCLIENT-1188
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1188
             Project: HttpComponents HttpClient
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: HttpClient
    Affects Versions: 4.1.3
            Reporter: Benjamin Bentmann


Quoting from http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec8.html#sec8.2.2:
bq. An HTTP/1.1 (or later) client sending a message-body SHOULD monitor the 
network connection for an error status while it is transmitting the request. If 
the client sees an error status, it SHOULD immediately cease transmitting the 
body. If the body is being sent using a "chunked" encoding (section 3.6), a 
zero length chunk and empty trailer MAY be used to prematurely mark the end of 
the message. If the body was preceded by a Content-Length header, the client 
MUST close the connection. 

This is apparently not the case with the HttpClient. While uploading large 
files (tens of MBs) whose transfer takes notable time (~ 30 sec) we observed 
the following exceptions (the variation in detail msg are either due to Java 
version or OS):
{noformat}
java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
  at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
  at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:92)
  at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:136)
  at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.OutputRecord.writeBuffer(OutputRecord.java:297)
  at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.OutputRecord.write(OutputRecord.java:286)
  at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecordInternal(SSLSocketImpl.java:743)
  at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:731)
  at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.AppOutputStream.write(AppOutputStream.java:59)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionOutputBuffer.write(AbstractSessionOutputBuffer.java:153)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.io.ContentLengthOutputStream.write(ContentLengthOutputStream.java:114)
  at org.apache.http.entity.FileEntity.writeTo(FileEntity.java:75)
  at org.apache.http.entity.HttpEntityWrapper.writeTo(HttpEntityWrapper.java:96)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.EntityEnclosingRequestWrapper$EntityWrapper.writeTo(EntityEnclosingRequestWrapper.java:108)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.entity.EntitySerializer.serialize(EntitySerializer.java:120)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.AbstractHttpClientConnection.sendRequestEntity(AbstractHttpClientConnection.java:264)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractClientConnAdapter.sendRequestEntity(AbstractClientConnAdapter.java:224)
  at 
org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doSendRequest(HttpRequestExecutor.java:255)
  at 
org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:123)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryExecute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:647)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:464)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:820)
  
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write error
  at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
  at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:92)
  at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:136)
  at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.OutputRecord.writeBuffer(OutputRecord.java:297)
  at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.OutputRecord.write(OutputRecord.java:286)
  at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecordInternal(SSLSocketImpl.java:748)
  at 
com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.SSLSocketImpl.writeRecord(SSLSocketImpl.java:736)
  at com.sun.net.ssl.internal.ssl.AppOutputStream.write(AppOutputStream.java:89)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.io.AbstractSessionOutputBuffer.write(AbstractSessionOutputBuffer.java:153)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.io.ContentLengthOutputStream.write(ContentLengthOutputStream.java:114)
  at org.apache.http.entity.FileEntity.writeTo(FileEntity.java:75)
  at org.apache.http.entity.HttpEntityWrapper.writeTo(HttpEntityWrapper.java:96)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.EntityEnclosingRequestWrapper$EntityWrapper.writeTo(EntityEnclosingRequestWrapper.java:108)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.entity.EntitySerializer.serialize(EntitySerializer.java:120)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.AbstractHttpClientConnection.sendRequestEntity(AbstractHttpClientConnection.java:264)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.conn.AbstractClientConnAdapter.sendRequestEntity(AbstractClientConnAdapter.java:224)
  at 
org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doSendRequest(HttpRequestExecutor.java:255)
  at 
org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:123)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.tryExecute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:647)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:464)
  at 
org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:820)
{noformat}

The cause for those is apparently that the server sends an error response 
before fully consuming the request body sent by the client. The server 
eventually closes the TCP connection (after having notified the client via FIN 
and RST) but the client continues to upload and runs into the closed server 
side.

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