Unexpected Connection Reset: A PHP or an Apache issue?

Question

I have a PHP script that keeps stopping at the same place every time and my browser reports:

The connection to the server was reset while the page w

Answer 1

I also had this problem today, it turned out to be a stray break; statement in the PHP code (outside of any switch or any loop), in a function with a try...catch...finally block.

Looks like PHP crashes in this situation:

This was with PHP version 5.5.5.