RFR: 8237578: JDK-8214339 (SSLSocketImpl wraps SocketException) appears to not be fully fixed

Wed Jan 6 23:58:57 UTC 2021

On Wed, 6 Jan 2021 23:28:34 GMT, Clive Verghese <cverghese at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This PR aims to revert some more cases where SocketExceptions are improperly being wrapped as SSLException. Some work for this was done in [JDK-8235263](https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8235263), but that change did not cover all the cases.
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> As it was mentioned in JDK-8235263, some applications rely on receiving SocketException to decide if the connection should be retried. An example of this would be Apache HTTP client. This PR should ideally fix https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-2032

Thank you for take care of this issue.  Looks good to me.

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Marked as reviewed by xuelei (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/1968