Org.apache.http.ConnectionClosedException: Premature end of Content-Length delimited message body (expected: 225973935; received: 117746340

Since update to version 2.13 we see frequently the follow error. The problem occur only with very large files. And it occur not ever. The stacktrace does not show the original error because on close() occur another error. Any idea?

org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':msi'.
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:69)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:46)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.execute(PostExecutionAnalysisTaskExecuter.java:35)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.execute(SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.java:68)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ValidatingTaskExecuter.execute(ValidatingTaskExecuter.java:58)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.execute(SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.java:52)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.execute(SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.java:52)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.execute(SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.java:53)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.java:43)
	at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:203)
	at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:185)
	at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.processTask(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:66)
	at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.AbstractTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.run(AbstractTaskPlanExecutor.java:50)
	at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.process(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:25)
	at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:110)
	at org.gradle.execution.SelectedTaskExecutionAction.execute(SelectedTaskExecutionAction.java:37)
	at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:37)
	at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.access$000(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:23)
	at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter$1.proceed(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:43)
	at org.gradle.execution.DryRunBuildExecutionAction.execute(DryRunBuildExecutionAction.java:32)
	at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:37)
	at org.gradle.execution.DefaultBuildExecuter.execute(DefaultBuildExecuter.java:30)
	at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher$4.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:154)
	at org.gradle.internal.Factories$1.create(Factories.java:22)
	at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:90)
	at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:52)
	at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuildStages(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:151)
	at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.access$200(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:32)
	at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher$1.create(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:99)
	at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher$1.create(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:93)
	at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:90)
	at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:62)
	at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuild(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:93)
	at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:82)
	at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter$DefaultBuildController.run(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:94)
	at org.gradle.tooling.internal.provider.ExecuteBuildActionRunner.run(ExecuteBuildActionRunner.java:28)
	at org.gradle.launcher.exec.ChainingBuildActionRunner.run(ChainingBuildActionRunner.java:35)
	at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:43)
	at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:28)
	at org.gradle.launcher.exec.ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.execute(ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.java:81)
	at org.gradle.launcher.exec.ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.execute(ContinuousBuildActionExecuter.java:46)
	at org.gradle.launcher.exec.DaemonUsageSuggestingBuildActionExecuter.execute(DaemonUsageSuggestingBuildActionExecuter.java:51)
	at org.gradle.launcher.exec.DaemonUsageSuggestingBuildActionExecuter.execute(DaemonUsageSuggestingBuildActionExecuter.java:28)
	at org.gradle.launcher.cli.RunBuildAction.run(RunBuildAction.java:43)
	at org.gradle.internal.Actions$RunnableActionAdapter.execute(Actions.java:173)
	at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:241)
	at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:214)
	at org.gradle.launcher.cli.JavaRuntimeValidationAction.execute(JavaRuntimeValidationAction.java:35)
	at org.gradle.launcher.cli.JavaRuntimeValidationAction.execute(JavaRuntimeValidationAction.java:24)
	at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:207)
	at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:169)
	at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:33)
	at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:22)
	at org.gradle.launcher.Main.doAction(Main.java:33)
	at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.EntryPoint.run(EntryPoint.java:45)
	at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.runNoExit(ProcessBootstrap.java:55)
	at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.run(ProcessBootstrap.java:36)
	at org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain.main(GradleMain.java:23)
Caused by: org.gradle.api.artifacts.ResolveException: Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':lib:SQLExpress:0:SQLEXPR_x64_DEU.zip'.
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ErrorHandlingConfigurationResolver.wrapException(ErrorHandlingConfigurationResolver.java:70)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ErrorHandlingConfigurationResolver.access$000(ErrorHandlingConfigurationResolver.java:33)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ErrorHandlingConfigurationResolver$ErrorHandlingResolvedConfiguration.getFiles(ErrorHandlingConfigurationResolver.java:199)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.configurations.DefaultConfiguration$ConfigurationFileCollection.getFiles(DefaultConfiguration.java:668)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.configurations.DefaultConfiguration.getFiles(DefaultConfiguration.java:292)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.configurations.DefaultConfiguration_Decorated.getFiles(Unknown Source)
	at org.gradle.api.file.FileCollection$getFiles.call(Unknown Source)
	at base_csi4b251a9pdlu0zcfco4x7xf$_run_closure9.doCall(C:\HudsonHome-helpdesk-trunk\workspace\Build-Windows-Installer\BuildScripts\base.gradle:220)
	at base_csi4b251a9pdlu0zcfco4x7xf$_run_closure9.doCall(C:\HudsonHome-helpdesk-trunk\workspace\Build-Windows-Installer\BuildScripts\base.gradle)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.CompositeDynamicObject.invokeMethod(CompositeDynamicObject.java:159)
	at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.BasicScript.methodMissing(BasicScript.java:79)
	at build_au25stiytgud87aur72scjt61$_run_closure3$_closure29$_closure30.doCall(C:\HudsonHome-helpdesk-trunk\workspace\Build-Windows-Installer\HelpDeskInstaller\build.gradle:277)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.ClosureBackedAction.execute(ClosureBackedAction.java:67)
	at org.gradle.util.ConfigureUtil.configure(ConfigureUtil.java:130)
	at org.gradle.util.ConfigureUtil.configure(ConfigureUtil.java:91)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.file.copy.DefaultCopySpec.into(DefaultCopySpec.java:139)
	at com.inet.gradle.setup.SetupSources.into(SetupSources.java:176)
	at build_au25stiytgud87aur72scjt61$_run_closure3$_closure29.doCall(C:\HudsonHome-helpdesk-trunk\workspace\Build-Windows-Installer\HelpDeskInstaller\build.gradle:276)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask$ClosureTaskAction.execute(AbstractTask.java:554)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask$ClosureTaskAction.execute(AbstractTask.java:535)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeAction(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:80)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:61)
	... 57 more
Caused by: org.gradle.internal.resolve.ArtifactResolveException: Could not download SQLExpress-SQLEXPR_x64_DEU.zip (lib:SQLExpress:0)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.repositories.resolver.ExternalResourceResolver.resolveArtifact(ExternalResourceResolver.java:240)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.repositories.resolver.ExternalResourceResolver$RemoteRepositoryAccess.resolveArtifact(ExternalResourceResolver.java:436)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ivyresolve.CacheLockReleasingModuleComponentsRepository$LockReleasingRepositoryAccess$5.run(CacheLockReleasingModuleComponentsRepository.java:96)
	at org.gradle.internal.Factories$1.create(Factories.java:22)
	at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheAccess.longRunningOperation(DefaultCacheAccess.java:242)
	at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheAccess.longRunningOperation(DefaultCacheAccess.java:313)
	at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultPersistentDirectoryStore.longRunningOperation(DefaultPersistentDirectoryStore.java:114)
	at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheFactory$ReferenceTrackingCache.longRunningOperation(DefaultCacheFactory.java:179)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.DefaultCacheLockingManager.longRunningOperation(DefaultCacheLockingManager.java:56)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ivyresolve.CacheLockReleasingModuleComponentsRepository$LockReleasingRepositoryAccess.resolveArtifact(CacheLockReleasingModuleComponentsRepository.java:94)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ivyresolve.CachingModuleComponentRepository$ResolveAndCacheRepositoryAccess.resolveArtifact(CachingModuleComponentRepository.java:342)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ivyresolve.BaseModuleComponentRepositoryAccess.resolveArtifact(BaseModuleComponentRepositoryAccess.java:54)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ivyresolve.memcache.InMemoryCachedModuleComponentRepository$CachedAccess.resolveArtifact(InMemoryCachedModuleComponentRepository.java:82)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ivyresolve.ErrorHandlingModuleComponentRepository$ErrorHandlingModuleComponentRepositoryAccess.resolveArtifact(ErrorHandlingModuleComponentRepository.java:116)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ivyresolve.RepositoryChainArtifactResolver.resolveArtifact(RepositoryChainArtifactResolver.java:65)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.resolveengine.ComponentResolversChain$ArtifactResolverChain.resolveArtifact(ComponentResolversChain.java:98)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ContextualArtifactResolver$3.execute(ContextualArtifactResolver.java:61)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ContextualArtifactResolver$3.execute(ContextualArtifactResolver.java:59)
	at org.gradle.internal.Transformers$4.transform(Transformers.java:169)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.DefaultIvyContextManager.withIvy(DefaultIvyContextManager.java:61)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.DefaultIvyContextManager.withIvy(DefaultIvyContextManager.java:39)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ContextualArtifactResolver$4.run(ContextualArtifactResolver.java:69)
	at org.gradle.internal.Factories$1.create(Factories.java:22)
	at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheAccess.useCache(DefaultCacheAccess.java:192)
	at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheAccess.useCache(DefaultCacheAccess.java:175)
	at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultPersistentDirectoryStore.useCache(DefaultPersistentDirectoryStore.java:106)
	at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheFactory$ReferenceTrackingCache.useCache(DefaultCacheFactory.java:187)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.DefaultCacheLockingManager.useCache(DefaultCacheLockingManager.java:64)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ContextualArtifactResolver.executeInContext(ContextualArtifactResolver.java:67)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ContextualArtifactResolver.resolveArtifact(ContextualArtifactResolver.java:59)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ivyresolve.ErrorHandlingArtifactResolver.resolveArtifact(ErrorHandlingArtifactResolver.java:53)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.resolveengine.artifact.DefaultArtifactSet$LazyArtifactSource.create(DefaultArtifactSet.java:93)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.resolveengine.artifact.DefaultArtifactSet$LazyArtifactSource.create(DefaultArtifactSet.java:80)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.DefaultResolvedArtifact.getFile(DefaultResolvedArtifact.java:90)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.DefaultLenientConfiguration$2.run(DefaultLenientConfiguration.java:122)
	at org.gradle.internal.Factories$1.create(Factories.java:22)
	at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheAccess.useCache(DefaultCacheAccess.java:192)
	at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheAccess.useCache(DefaultCacheAccess.java:175)
	at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultPersistentDirectoryStore.useCache(DefaultPersistentDirectoryStore.java:106)
	at org.gradle.cache.internal.DefaultCacheFactory$ReferenceTrackingCache.useCache(DefaultCacheFactory.java:187)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.DefaultCacheLockingManager.useCache(DefaultCacheLockingManager.java:64)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.DefaultLenientConfiguration.getFiles(DefaultLenientConfiguration.java:119)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.DefaultLenientConfiguration.getFilesStrict(DefaultLenientConfiguration.java:91)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.DefaultResolvedConfiguration.getFiles(DefaultResolvedConfiguration.java:45)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.SelfResolvingDependencyConfigurationResolver$FilesAggregatingResolvedConfiguration.getFiles(SelfResolvingDependencyConfigurationResolver.java:87)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ErrorHandlingConfigurationResolver$ErrorHandlingResolvedConfiguration.getFiles(ErrorHandlingConfigurationResolver.java:197)
	... 76 more
Caused by: org.gradle.api.resources.ResourceException: Could not close resource 'http://fileserver/artifactory/inet-snapshot/lib/SQLExpress/0/SQLEXPR_x64_DEU.zip'.
	at org.gradle.internal.resource.transfer.DefaultExternalResource.close(DefaultExternalResource.java:61)
	at org.gradle.internal.resource.transfer.DefaultCacheAwareExternalResourceAccessor.copyToCache(DefaultCacheAwareExternalResourceAccessor.java:192)
	at org.gradle.internal.resource.transfer.DefaultCacheAwareExternalResourceAccessor.getResource(DefaultCacheAwareExternalResourceAccessor.java:76)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.repositories.resolver.DefaultExternalResourceArtifactResolver.downloadStaticResource(DefaultExternalResourceArtifactResolver.java:86)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.repositories.resolver.DefaultExternalResourceArtifactResolver.resolveArtifact(DefaultExternalResourceArtifactResolver.java:56)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.repositories.resolver.ExternalResourceResolver.download(ExternalResourceResolver.java:252)
	at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.repositories.resolver.ExternalResourceResolver.resolveArtifact(ExternalResourceResolver.java:238)
	... 121 more
Caused by: org.apache.http.ConnectionClosedException: Premature end of Content-Length delimited message body (expected: 225973935; received: 50471408
	at org.apache.http.impl.io.ContentLengthInputStream.read(ContentLengthInputStream.java:180)
	at org.apache.http.impl.io.ContentLengthInputStream.read(ContentLengthInputStream.java:200)
	at org.apache.http.impl.io.ContentLengthInputStream.close(ContentLengthInputStream.java:103)
	at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ResponseEntityProxy.streamClosed(ResponseEntityProxy.java:128)
	at org.apache.http.conn.EofSensorInputStream.checkClose(EofSensorInputStream.java:228)
	at org.apache.http.conn.EofSensorInputStream.close(EofSensorInputStream.java:174)
	at org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils.consume(EntityUtils.java:88)
	at org.gradle.internal.resource.transport.http.HttpResponseResource.close(HttpResponseResource.java:124)
	at org.gradle.internal.resource.transport.http.HttpResourceAccessor$1.close(HttpResourceAccessor.java:110)
	at org.gradle.internal.resource.transfer.ProgressLoggingExternalResourceAccessor$ProgressLoggingExternalResource.close(ProgressLoggingExternalResourceAccessor.java:65)
	at org.gradle.internal.resource.transfer.DefaultExternalResource.close(DefaultExternalResource.java:59)
	... 127 more

Thanks! Which version of Gradle were you using before?

What’s the correct size of http://fileserver/artifactory/inet-snapshot/lib/SQLExpress/0/SQLEXPR_x64_DEU.zip? If you download it directly, is it ~225MB or 50MB?

Before we have use version 2.11. The ~225 MB are correct. The gradle cache was deleted before that it must download the file. The repository fileserver is in the same local network.

I am having the same problem sporadically. I was suspecting a disk-full situation at first, but I can exclude that. I also tried to fetch the file via wget, which worked without problems.

The main problem is that we cannot see the original exception, because it is hidden by the exception in the finally clause, which was already mentioned by the OP.

I am using gradle 2.14.1
Previously we have been using gradle 2.4 and never saw that problem.

Is there any update on this problem?

UPDATE:
I just saw a build for an old branch that is using gradle 2.4 which also had that problem.
We are using artifactory server as repository.