What is the meaning of the “connection reset by peer” error on a TCP connection? Is it a fatal error or just a notification or related to the network failure?
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It’s fatal. The remote server has sent you a RST packet, which indicates an immediate dropping of the connection, rather than the usual handshake. This bypasses the normal half-closed state transition. I like this description: