Hi all, I have a file download servlet running on Tomcat, the code is public void service(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException { byte buf[] = new byte[1024 * 4]; try { File file = new File(realFilename); int size = (int) file.length(); BufferedInputStream realFile = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file)); OutputStream out = response.getOutputStream(); response.setContentLength(size); while (true) { int count = realFile.read(buf); if (count == -1) { break; } out.write(buf, 0, count); } out.flush(); } catch (FileNotFoundException e) { logger.error("Stream download failed, file not found: " + realFilename, e); response.sendError(404); } catch (Exception e) { logger.error("DownloadException:", e); } } However once in a while I get an error that prevents files from being downloaded:
DownloadException: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:366) at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.flushBuffer(ByteChunk.java:432) at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.append(ByteChunk.java:347) at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.writeBytes(OutputBuffer.java:392) at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.write(OutputBuffer.java:381) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteOutputStream.write(CoyoteOutputStream.java:89) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:269) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:215) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:188) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:213) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:172) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:108) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:174) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:875) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Http11BaseProtocol.java:665) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.PoolTcpEndpoint.processSocket(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:528) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.MasterSlaveWorkerThread.run(MasterSlaveWorkerThread.java:113) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method) at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(SocketOutputStream.java:92) at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(SocketOutputStream.java:136) at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalOutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(InternalOutputBuffer.java:750) at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.flushBuffer(ByteChunk.java:432) at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.append(ByteChunk.java:347) at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalOutputBuffer$OutputStreamOutputBuffer.doWrite(InternalOutputBuffer.java:773) at org.apache.coyote.http11.filters.IdentityOutputFilter.doWrite(IdentityOutputFilter.java:118) at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalOutputBuffer.doWrite(InternalOutputBuffer.java:583) at org.apache.coyote.Response.doWrite(Response.java:560) at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:361) ... 23 more My tomcat connector has this settings: <Connector port="8968" disableUploadTimeout="true" enableLookups="false" acceptCount="10000" connectionTimeout="120000" maxKeepAliveRequests="20" maxSpareThreads="300" maxThreads="300" minSpareThreads="100" strategy="ms" threadPriority="java.lang.Thread#MAX_PRIORITY" tcpNoDelay="true" protocol="org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol" compression="on" server="" compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/css,text/javascript" clockless="false"/> How can I prevent such an error? Thanks!!!