HttpClient uploading large files

When using HTTPClient to upload large files I was getting the following exception:

org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector executeWithRetry
INFO: I/O exception (java.net.SocketException) caught when processing request: Software caused connection abort: socket write error
org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodDirector executeWithRetry
INFO: Retrying request
java.lang.Exception: Unbuffered entity enclosing request can not be repeated.

I had the following code:

PutMethod method = new PutMethod(url + "/" + file.getName());
RequestEntity requestEntity = new InputStreamRequestEntity(new FileInputStream(file));
method.setRequestEntity(requestEntity);
client.executeMethod(method);

I replaced the code as follows:

String filename = url + "/" + file.getName();
PutMethod method = new PutMethod(filename);
method.getParams().setBooleanParameter(HttpMethodParams.USE_EXPECT_CONTINUE, true);
Part[] parts = { new FilePart(file.getName(), file) };
method.setRequestEntity(new MultipartRequestEntity(parts, method.getParams()));
client.executeMethod(method);

In my case I am uploading (PUTMETHOD) to a WebDAV folder. But I noticed that this issue is happening for other protocols too.
Basically using MultiPart and setting the parameter USE_EXPECT_CONTINUE to true solved the problem.
The problem is due to the authentication. When the post has a big file it opens the transfer multiple times. And I guess the socket will be closed or not authenticated when there is the second transfer.