The client disconnected

Question

I\'m getting the following error in logs for WebAPI

System.Web.HttpException (0x800703E3): The client disconnected. at System.Web.Hosting.IIS7Wor

Answer 1

You can ignore these exceptions.

The exception says what the problem is: "The client disconnected". It means that the client initiated a request but then disconnected before it bothered to read all of the response.

There are any numbers of reasons why that might be the case, but (unless you have a dodgy internet connection at your server end) it is almost certainly an issue at the client end. I regularly see these myself and mostly it seems to be related to a bot. So I filter them out and ignore them.

Answer 2

try
{
   // Open Connection
   // Do stuff
}
catch (HttpException  ex)
{
   // Log it?
   // Ignore it? 
   // Do what you want with it?
}
finally
{
   // Close connection
}