The remote host closed the connection. The error code is 0x800704CD

Question

I receive error emails from my website whenever an exception occurs. I am getting this error:

The remote host closed the connection. The error code is

Answer 1

I too got this same error on my image handler that I wrote. I got it like 30 times a day on site with heavy traffic, managed to reproduce it also. You get this when a user cancels the request (closes the page or his internet connection is interrupted for example), in my case in the following row:

myContext.Response.OutputStream.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);

I can’t think of any way to prevent it but maybe you can properly handle this. Ex:

        try
        {
            …
            myContext.Response.OutputStream.Write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
            …
        }catch (HttpException ex)
        {
            if (ex.Message.StartsWith("The remote host closed the connection."))
                ;//do nothing
            else
                //handle other errors
        }            
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            //handle other errors
        }
        finally
        {//close streams etc..
        }