Why I get java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

Question

I need sent some requests to server side and get reponse, sometimes when I call specific method to run the flollowing common code, I get one error in line(addToCookieJar(connection);), any idea how this get happened?

    URL url = new URL(providerURL);
    HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
    connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
    connection.setDoInput(true);
    connection.setDoOutput(true);
    connection.setUseCaches(false);
    connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");

    // We understand gzip encoding
    connection.addRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "gzip");

    if (cookie != null && cookieHandler != null) {
        connection.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookie);
    }

    if (cookieHandler == null) {
        addFromCookieJar(connection);
    }

    // Send the request
    ObjectOutputStream oos = new ObjectOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());
    oos.writeObject(remote.getName());
    oos.writeObject(m.getName()); // method name
    oos.writeObject(m.getParameterTypes()); // formal parameters
    oos.writeObject(args); // actual parameters
    oos.flush();
    oos.close();

    if (cookieHandler == null) {
        cookieJar.put(new URI(providerURL), connection.getHeaderFields());
    }

Exception:

   java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException
            at $Proxy0.updateDocument(Unknown Source)
            at com.agst.ui.gantt.GanttPanel.doUpdateDocument(GanttPanel.java:1931)
            at com.agst.ui.gantt.GanttPanel.save(GanttPanel.java:1419)
            at com.agst.ui.gantt.GanttPanel$4.run(GanttPanel.java:1673)
            at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

   Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
            at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
            at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
            at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)
            at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)
            at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(Unknown Source)
            at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
            at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(Unknown Source)
            at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
            at com.agst.rmi.RemoteCallHandler.call(RemoteCallHandler.java:196)
            at com.agst.rmi.RemoteCallHandler.invoke(RemoteCallHandler.java:142)
            ... 5 more

   Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
            at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
            at java.io.BufferedInputStream.fill(Unknown Source)
            at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(Unknown Source)
            at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
            at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTPHeader(Unknown Source)
            at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(Unknown Source)
            at sun.net.www.http.HttpClient.parseHTTP(Unknown Source)
            at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(Unknown Source)
            at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getHeaderFields(Unknown Source)
            at com.agst.rmi.RemoteCallHandler.addToCookieJar(RemoteCallHandler.java:529)
            at com.agst.rmi.RemoteCallHandler.call(RemoteCallHandler.java:192)
            ... 6 more

Solution

This error indicates that the remote side has closed the connection while your side was still trying to read from it. You should check if

• there is a problem on the server (check it's logs) or
• you are trying to read more data than the server supplies