How to solve "Connection reset by peer: socket write error"?

Question

When I am reading the file content from server it returns the following error message:

Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: socket write error
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.socketWrite(Unknown Source)
at java.net.SocketOutputStream.write(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalOutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(InternalOutputBuffer.java:215)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.flushBuffer(ByteChunk.java:462)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.buf.ByteChunk.append(ByteChunk.java:366)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.InternalOutputBuffer$OutputStreamOutputBuffer.doWrite(InternalOutputBuffer.java:240)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.filters.ChunkedOutputFilter.doWrite(ChunkedOutputFilter.java:119)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractOutputBuffer.doWrite(AbstractOutputBuffer.java:192)
at org.apache.coyote.Response.doWrite(Response.java:504)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.OutputBuffer.realWriteBytes(OutputBuffer.java:383)
... 28 more

and my servlet program is

 response.setContentType("application/octet-stream");
 response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment;filename="+filename);
 FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(new File(filepath));
 ServletOutputStream output=response.getOutputStream();
 byte[] outputByte=new byte[4096];
 while(in.read(outputByte,0,4096)!=-1){
     output.write(outputByte,0,4096);//error indicates in this line
 }
 in.close();
 output.flush();
 output.close();

How to solve this issue?

Answer 1

I've got the same exception and in my case the problem was in a renegotiation procecess. In fact my client closed a connection when the server tried to change a cipher suite. After digging it appears that in the jdk 1.6 update 22 renegotiation process is disabled by default. If your security constraints can effort this, try to enable the unsecure renegotiation by setting the sun.security.ssl.allowUnsafeRenegotiation system property to true. Here is some information about the process:

Session renegotiation is a mechanism within the SSL protocol that allows the client or the server to trigger a new SSL handshake during an ongoing SSL communication. Renegotiation was initially designed as a mechanism to increase the security of an ongoing SSL channel, by triggering the renewal of the crypto keys used to secure that channel. However, this security measure isn't needed with modern cryptographic algorithms. Additionally, renegotiation can be used by a server to request a client certificate (in order to perform client authentication) when the client tries to access specific, protected resources on the server.

Additionally there is the excellent post about this issue in details and written in (IMHO) understandable language.