I have a Java ServerSocket on an android sharing app that shares files over the network via the HTTP protocol.

I want to tell the user who uses the ServerSocket on his phone whether the other user using the browser clicked Abort or Pause.

At first I noticed that when client clicks pause it causes InputStream.read() of the socket to throw IOException with Broken pipe message.

So I did this.

try {
 // ...
} catch (IOException e) {
    if( "Broken pipe".equals(e.getMessage()) ) {
        progressManager.reportPaused();
    } else {
        progressManager.reportAbort();
    }
    Log.d(MY_LOGTAG, "SendFileResponse(). Exception: " + e.getMessage());

}

Testing the Abort button in browser it triggered progressManager.reportPaused();
And in logcat I noticed that it throw the same Broken pipe exception.

I want a way to make a pause call progressManager.reportPause() and an abort to call progressManager.reportAbort() if possible.

if not possible I wonder if there is a way to tell the browser that we don’t support pausing and disable that pause button.