Apache HTTP client retries request and will not consume server's response if larger request is terminated early

Issue

• We have requests issued by the Apache HTTP Client that are expected to be terminated early by the destination server with an error response. These terminated requests behave differently depending upon the request size. Smaller requests complete without exception and return the server's error response. But larger requests do not return the server's error response and instead throw a SocketException like below and retry the request multiple times, which is not desired:

java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe
    at java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.implWrite(NioSocketImpl.java:425)
    at java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl.write(NioSocketImpl.java:445)
    at java.base/sun.nio.ch.NioSocketImpl$2.write(NioSocketImpl.java:831)
    at java.base/java.net.Socket$SocketOutputStream.write(Socket.java:1035)
    at org.apache.http.impl.io.SessionOutputBufferImpl.streamWrite(SessionOutputBufferImpl.java:124)
    at org.apache.http.impl.io.SessionOutputBufferImpl.write(SessionOutputBufferImpl.java:160)
    at org.apache.http.impl.io.ContentLengthOutputStream.write(ContentLengthOutputStream.java:113)
    at org.apache.http.entity.ByteArrayEntity.writeTo(ByteArrayEntity.java:112)
    at org.apache.http.impl.DefaultBHttpClientConnection.sendRequestEntity(DefaultBHttpClientConnection.java:156)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.CPoolProxy.sendRequestEntity(CPoolProxy.java:152)
    at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.doSendRequest(HttpRequestExecutor.java:238)
    at org.apache.http.protocol.HttpRequestExecutor.execute(HttpRequestExecutor.java:123)
    at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:272)
    at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:186)
    at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:89)
    at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:110)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:185)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:118)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:56)