Why does canceling a socket IInputStream::loadAsync operation close the socket?

Question

I am using

 WinJS.Promise.timeout(timeout, stream.readAsync(buffer, 4096, partial))

to read from a stream and cancel the operation, in case there is no data on the stream. This works, the method cancels the promise after a timeout, but this also closes the streams socket connection. Why is that? And how could I deal with it?

Answer 1

As I know, it is by design and you need wait until the socket finish reading the whole stream.