Hi,

I've seen similar posts from users before on this topic but do not believe I 
saw a concrete answer. I was streaming a PDF to my browser yesterday when I 
decided to quickly move to another page in the website and therefore stopping 
the PDF response stream. When I looked in the logs, I found the following stack 
trace.

The com.lowagie.text.pdf has spotted that this was a Client Abort which it was, 
but I also noted that it is wrapping up the real error that occured which was a 
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write. 
We have this java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write 
error in our logs quite often on our production server and I am "guessing" that 
perhaps users are stopping the response stream somehow, perhaps closing the 
browser or moving to another page mid-response?

In both that case, and in the case of aborting the PDF stream as below, I am 
not convinced I need to care since it does not impair the server that a user 
did not bother to receive the full response. 

Does anyone disagree or have an explanation why such scary stack traces should 
be output by Tomcat each time a user does not complete receiving their response 
.. is it perhaps because Tomcat is unable to differentiate between a user 
closing their browser and some other network problem that I may well want to 
know about?

Thanks, Allistair.

ExceptionConverter: ClientAbortException:  java.net.SocketException: Connection 
reset by peer: socket write error
        at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:366)
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.flushBuffer(ByteChunk.java:403)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.doFlush(OutputBuffer.java:314)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.flush(OutputBuffer.java:293)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteOutputStream.flush(CoyoteOutputStream.java:85)
        at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:124)
        at com.lowagie.text.pdf.OutputStreamCounter.flush(Unknown Source)
        at com.lowagie.text.DocWriter.close(Unknown Source)
        at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter.close(Unknown Source)
        at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfDocument.close(Unknown Source)
        at com.lowagie.text.Document.close(Unknown Source)
        at 
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportReportToStream(JRPdfExporter.java:457)
        at 
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.export.JRPdfExporter.exportReport(JRPdfExporter.java:282)
        at 
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperExportManager.exportReportToPdfStream(JasperExportManager.java:174)
        at 
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperPrintManager.printReportToPdfStream(JasperPrintManager.java:145)
        at 
net.sf.jasperreports.engine.JasperRunManager.runReportToPdfStream(JasperRunManager.java:269)
        at 
com.qas.newmedia.intranet.pof.actions.mypos.PDFGenerateAction.doWork(PDFGenerateAction.java:155)
        at 
com.qas.newmedia.intranet.iq.actions.SecuredBaseAction.execute(SecuredBaseAction.java:188)
        at 
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.processActionPerform(RequestProcessor.java:421)
        at 
org.apache.struts.action.RequestProcessor.process(RequestProcessor.java:226)
        at 
org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.process(ActionServlet.java:1158)
        at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.doGet(ActionServlet.java:397)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:252)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at 
com.qas.newmedia.common.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(SetCharacterEncodingFilter.java:65)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:202)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:173)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:214)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:178)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:126)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:105)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:526)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:107)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:148)
        at org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:305)
        at org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:383)
        at org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:745)
        at 
org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:675)
        at org.apache.jk.common.SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:868)
        at 
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:684)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)


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