From: Eric Hodel Date: 2008-06-06T09:29:13+09:00 Subject: Re: Strange Webrick Error On Jun 5, 2008, at 13:35 PM, Christian Kerth wrote: > Eric Hodel wrote: >> I've seen this error when attaching to an Apache web server via >> Net::HTTP. I think that WinXP will terminate the connection from the >> local end (without your permission) when some internal timeout is >> hit. > > i have a background thread in my application (that one that runs the > webrick server) that connects via Net:HTTP to a Tomcat Server on the > web > for data retrieval. > Any suggestions to get rid of this error? The only one I could think of was to rescue and retry.