diff --git a/handler/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/ssl/SslHandler.java b/handler/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/ssl/SslHandler.java
index dd74f7f0e9..8138d4cdf6 100644
--- a/handler/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/ssl/SslHandler.java
+++ b/handler/src/main/java/io/netty/handler/ssl/SslHandler.java
@@ -29,10 +29,15 @@ import io.netty.channel.ChannelPipeline;
 import io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelFuture;
 import io.netty.logging.InternalLogger;
 import io.netty.logging.InternalLoggerFactory;
+import io.netty.util.internal.DetectionUtil;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.DatagramSocket;
+import java.net.Socket;
 import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
 import java.nio.channels.ClosedChannelException;
+import java.nio.channels.DatagramChannel;
+import java.nio.channels.SocketChannel;
 import java.util.ArrayDeque;
 import java.util.Queue;
 import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
@@ -149,9 +154,8 @@ public class SslHandler
     private static final InternalLogger logger =
         InternalLoggerFactory.getInstance(SslHandler.class);
 
-    private static final Pattern IGNORABLE_ERROR_MESSAGE = Pattern.compile(
-            "^.*(?:connection.*reset|connection.*closed|broken.*pipe).*$",
-            Pattern.CASE_INSENSITIVE);
+    private static final Pattern IGNORABLE_CLASS_IN_STACK = Pattern.compile(
+            "^.*(Socket|DatagramChannel|SctpChannel).*$");
 
     private volatile ChannelHandlerContext ctx;
     private final SSLEngine engine;
@@ -438,29 +442,89 @@ public class SslHandler
 
     @Override
     public void exceptionCaught(ChannelHandlerContext ctx, Throwable cause) throws Exception {
-        if (cause instanceof IOException && engine.isOutboundDone()) {
-            String message = String.valueOf(cause.getMessage()).toLowerCase();
-            if (IGNORABLE_ERROR_MESSAGE.matcher(message).matches()) {
-                // It is safe to ignore the 'connection reset by peer' or
-                // 'broken pipe' error after sending closure_notify.
-                if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
-                    logger.debug(
-                            "Swallowing a 'connection reset by peer / " +
-                            "broken pipe' error occurred while writing " +
-                            "'closure_notify'", cause);
-                }
-
-                // Close the connection explicitly just in case the transport
-                // did not close the connection automatically.
-                if (ctx.channel().isActive()) {
-                    ctx.close();
-                }
-                return;
+        if (ignoreException(cause)) {
+            // It is safe to ignore the 'connection reset by peer' or
+            // 'broken pipe' error after sending closure_notify.
+            if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
+                logger.debug(
+                        "Swallowing a 'connection reset by peer / " +
+                        "broken pipe' error occurred while writing " +
+                        "'closure_notify'", cause);
             }
+
+            // Close the connection explicitly just in case the transport
+            // did not close the connection automatically.
+            if (ctx.channel().isActive()) {
+                ctx.close();
+            }
+            return;
+
         }
         super.exceptionCaught(ctx, cause);
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Checks if the given {@link Throwable} can be ignore and just "swallowed"
+     *
+     * When an ssl connection is closed a close_notify message is sent.
+     * After that the peer also sends close_notify however, it's not mandatory to receive
+     * the close_notify. The party who sent the initial close_notify can close the connection immediately
+     * then the peer will get connection reset error.
+     *
+     */
+    private boolean ignoreException(Throwable t) {
+        if (!(t instanceof SSLException) && t instanceof IOException && engine.isOutboundDone()) {
+
+            // Inspect the StackTraceElements to see if it was a connection reset / broken pipe or not
+            StackTraceElement[] elements = t.getStackTrace();
+            for (StackTraceElement element: elements) {
+                String classname = element.getClassName();
+                String methodname = element.getMethodName();
+
+                // skip all classes that belong to the io.netty package
+                if (classname.startsWith("io.netty.")) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                // check if the method name is read if not skip it
+                if (!methodname.equals("read")) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+
+                // This will also match against SocketInputStream which is used by openjdk 7 and maybe
+                // also others
+                if (IGNORABLE_CLASS_IN_STACK.matcher(classname).matches()) {
+                    return true;
+                }
+
+                try {
+                    // No match by now.. Try to load the class via classloader and inspect it.
+                    // This is mainly done as other JDK implementations may differ in name of
+                    // the impl.
+                    Class<?> clazz = getClass().getClassLoader().loadClass(classname);
+
+                    if (SocketChannel.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)
+                            || DatagramChannel.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)
+                            || Socket.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)
+                            || DatagramSocket.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz)) {
+                        return true;
+                    }
+
+                    // also match against SctpChannel via String matching as it may not present.
+                    if (DetectionUtil.javaVersion() >= 7
+                            && "com.sun.nio.sctp.SctpChannel".equals(clazz.getSuperclass().getName())) {
+                        return true;
+                    }
+                } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+                    // This should not happen just ignore
+                }
+
+            }
+        }
+
+        return false;
+    }
+
     @Override
     public void inboundBufferUpdated(final ChannelHandlerContext ctx) throws Exception {
         final ByteBuf in = ctx.inboundByteBuffer();