streaming big files over http with nanohttpd can cause java.net.SocketException - special handling needed

Hi All,

I am new to NanoHttpd. I am using this to stream a video in Android. For just normal playing this works like a charm without any issue. But when I try to seek to different time in the VideoPlayer, immediatly I get the following error and it creates a different socket and resumes to play after some time. But it shows the progress indicator for long time, which I think because of this issue and re-connecting with different socket. And Streaming is from local network server.

java.net.SocketException: sendto failed: EPIPE (Broken pipe)
        at libcore.io.IoBridge.maybeThrowAfterSendto(IoBridge.java:546)
        at libcore.io.IoBridge.sendto(IoBridge.java:515)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.write(PlainSocketImpl.java:504)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.access$100(PlainSocketImpl.java:37)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl$PlainSocketOutputStream.write(PlainSocketImpl.java:266)
        at me.etrmntonwheels.surfacetest.NanoHTTPD$Response.sendBody(NanoHTTPD.java:1423)
        at me.etrmntonwheels.surfacetest.NanoHTTPD$Response.sendBodyWithCorrectEncoding(NanoHTTPD.java:1396)
        at me.etrmntonwheels.surfacetest.NanoHTTPD$Response.sendBodyWithCorrectTransferAndEncoding(NanoHTTPD.java:1386)
        at me.etrmntonwheels.surfacetest.NanoHTTPD$Response.send(NanoHTTPD.java:1371)
        at me.etrmntonwheels.surfacetest.NanoHTTPD$HTTPSession.execute(NanoHTTPD.java:794)
        at me.etrmntonwheels.surfacetest.NanoHTTPD$ClientHandler.run(NanoHTTPD.java:195)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

 Caused by: android.system.ErrnoException: sendto failed: EPIPE (Broken pipe)
        at libcore.io.Posix.sendtoBytes(Native Method)
        at libcore.io.Posix.sendto(Posix.java:206)
        at libcore.io.BlockGuardOs.sendto(BlockGuardOs.java:278)
        at libcore.io.IoBridge.sendto(IoBridge.java:513)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.write(PlainSocketImpl.java:504)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.access$100(PlainSocketImpl.java:37)
        at java.net.PlainSocketImpl$PlainSocketOutputStream.write(PlainSocketImpl.java:266)
        at me.etrmntonwheels.surfacetest.NanoHTTPD$Response.sendBody(NanoHTTPD.java:1423)
        at me.etrmntonwheels.surfacetest.NanoHTTPD$Response.sendBodyWithCorrectEncoding(NanoHTTPD.java:1396)
        at me.etrmntonwheels.surfacetest.NanoHTTPD$Response.sendBodyWithCorrectTransferAndEncoding(NanoHTTPD.java:1386)
        at me.etrmntonwheels.surfacetest.NanoHTTPD$Response.send(NanoHTTPD.java:1371)
        at me.etrmntonwheels.surfacetest.NanoHTTPD$HTTPSession.execute(NanoHTTPD.java:794)
        at me.etrmntonwheels.surfacetest.NanoHTTPD$ClientHandler.run(NanoHTTPD.java:195)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

I am using serveFile function from SimpleWebServer sample to achieve partial content or streaming. I have read different articles and googled through stackoverflow but still could not figure out the reason.I am stuck at this issue from long time. Please help me to resolve this issue.

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Gibitopcommented, Apr 20, 2018

One more workaround is to add try-catch block to the “sendBody” method, so it closes the connection to the client if the client can’t accept data

private void sendBody(OutputStream outputStream, long pending) throws IOException {
    try {
        long BUFFER_SIZE = 16 * 1024;
        byte[] buff = new byte[(int) BUFFER_SIZE];
        boolean sendEverything = pending == -1;
        while (pending > 0 || sendEverything) {
            long bytesToRead = sendEverything ? BUFFER_SIZE : Math.min(pending, BUFFER_SIZE);
            int read = this.data.read(buff, 0, (int) bytesToRead);
            if (read <= 0) {
                break;
            }
            outputStream.write(buff, 0, read);
            if (!sendEverything) {
                pending -= read;
            }
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO: REMOVE WORKAROUND
        outputStream.close();
    }
}
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proninyaroslavcommented, Nov 11, 2018

@OLEG4120 I used master version of NanoHTTPD (not 2.3.1), and it seems it doesn’t have this problem.

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