Connection reset error in input.readLine()

[Sam Gehouse]

I am getting connection reset exception in line input.readLine() as shown below. Any help will be appreciated.

Code is shown below

Socket socket = new Socket();
socket.connect(new InetSocketAddress("myMachine", 4444), 0);

DataOutputStream output = new DataOutputStream(outputStream);
DataInputStream input = new DataInputStream(socket.getInputStream());
String request = "abcd" // abcd is the string passed to server
output.write(request.getBytes());

String responseLine;
while (true) {
responseLine = input.readLine();
os.println(responseLine);
}

On input.readLine() I get the exception as shown below:

java.net.SocketException: Connection reset
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:136)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:208)
at java.io.DataInputStream.readLine(DataInputStream.java:527)

[Joe Ess]

You are only showing us half the picture, but does your server code happen to close the socket (rather than the input stream) when it is done reading the request?