I agree with Oleg, it seems that the server is closing the connection in the middle of a request.
Does not this prove that the socket is closed from the application side, i.e from inside the HTTPClient? Or it is possible for the HttpConnection.close() to be called when a closed socket is detected (to clean up the resources, etc.)?
Yes, HttpClient closes the connection when it encounters the Exception while writing the request. see <http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/httpclient/xref/org/apache/commons/ httpclient/HttpMethodBase.html#2657>
Mike
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