java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

Question

I am getting the following error trying to read from a socket. I\'m doing a readInt() on that InputStream, and I am getting this error. Perusing th

Answer 1

Embarrassing to say it, but when I had this problem, it was simply a mistake that I was closing the connection before I read all the data. In cases with small strings being returned, it worked, but that was probably due to the whole response was buffered, before I closed it.

In cases of longer amounts of text being returned, the exception was thrown, since more then a buffer was coming back.

You might check for this oversight. Remember opening a URL is like a file, be sure to close it (release the connection) once it has been fully read.