java.net.SocketException: sendto failed: EPIPE (Broken pipe)

[zourb]

I got the exception when using okhttp:2.4.0.

java.net.SocketException: sendto failed: EPIPE (Broken pipe)
at libcore.io.IoBridge.maybeThrowAfterSendto(IoBridge.java:499)
at libcore.io.IoBridge.sendto(IoBridge.java:468)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.write(PlainSocketImpl.java:508)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.access$100(PlainSocketImpl.java:46)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl$PlainSocketOutputStream.write(PlainSocketImpl.java:270)
at okio.Okio$1.write(Okio.java:78)
at okio.AsyncTimeout$1.write(AsyncTimeout.java:155)
at okio.RealBufferedSink.flush(RealBufferedSink.java:221)
at com.squareup.okhttp.internal.http.HttpConnection.flush(HttpConnection.java:141)
at com.squareup.okhttp.internal.http.HttpTransport.finishRequest(HttpTransport.java:52)
at com.squareup.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.readNetworkResponse(HttpEngine.java:915)
at com.squareup.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.access$300(HttpEngine.java:95)
at com.squareup.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine$NetworkInterceptorChain.proceed(HttpEngine.java:902)
at com.squareup.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.readResponse(HttpEngine.java:760)
at com.squareup.okhttp.Call.getResponse(Call.java:274)
at com.squareup.okhttp.Call$ApplicationInterceptorChain.proceed(Call.java:230)
at com.squareup.okhttp.Call.getResponseWithInterceptorChain(Call.java:201)
at com.squareup.okhttp.Call.execute(Call.java:81)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:841)
Caused by: libcore.io.ErrnoException: sendto failed: EPIPE (Broken pipe)
at libcore.io.Posix.sendtoBytes(Native Method)
at libcore.io.Posix.sendto(Posix.java:155)
at libcore.io.BlockGuardOs.sendto(BlockGuardOs.java:177)
at libcore.io.IoBridge.sendto(IoBridge.java:466)
... 22 more

[swankjesse]

That's working as designed. Sometimes you lose network connectivity.

[hash070]

I've encountered this problem too. I think that is not caused by my backend's limitation. It seems to be the okhttp's post method has some problems when sending a large request body. 
I finally solved this problem by changing the post method to the put method to send my large request body.