Re: Broken pipe (SocketException) despite activity

From:
"Stefan Weber" <s.weber@upskill.ch>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
21 Aug 2006 09:38:03 -0700
Message-ID:
<1156178283.745062.293950@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>

I have a problem with a socket connection. I open a connection to the
server, send some data and close it again. So far, so good. The problem
arises when I want to send more data (eg. 50kbyte). In such a case, the
Client always terminates with a SocketException and the message "broken
pipe". The server is fine (or at least there is no exception).


If you closed the connection, then you need to open a new socket
before you can send more data.

If that's not the problem then you need to post your code.


This is not the problem.

I extracted the problematic code. The client is:

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Client
{
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        byte[] sendData = new byte[1024];
        byte[] rcvData = new byte[8];
        try {
            // connect to the node
            Socket socket = new Socket("planetlab02.ethz.ch", 5452);
            InputStream is = socket.getInputStream();
            OutputStream os = socket.getOutputStream();

            for(int i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
                os.write(sendData);
                os.flush();
                System.out.print("written...");
                is.read(rcvData);
                System.out.println("read...");
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

and the server:

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Server {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
        Socket socket = null;
        InputStream is = null;
        OutputStream os = null;
        ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(5452);

        // accept connections until thread is terminated
        while (true) {
            socket = serverSocket.accept();

            // if something tried to connect
            is = socket.getInputStream();
            os = socket.getOutputStream();

            byte[] b = new byte[1024];
            byte[] a = new byte[8];

            for (int i = 0; i < 50; i++) {
                is.read(b);
                System.out.print("read...");
                os.write(a);
                os.flush();
                System.out.println("written...");
            }

            socket.close();
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    }
}

I know this code doesn't really make sense. But it's taken out of
context to illustrate the problem (which of course still exists). After
a few read/writes, the mentioned error occurs.

Thanks and regards,

Stefan Weber

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