diff --git a/docker/body_reader.go b/docker/body_reader.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..f958e80e8e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/body_reader.go
@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+package docker
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"math"
+	"math/rand"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/url"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+	"syscall"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/sirupsen/logrus"
+)
+
+// bodyReaderMinimumProgress is the minimum progress we want to see before we retry
+const bodyReaderMinimumProgress = 1 * 1024 * 1024
+
+// bodyReader is an io.ReadCloser returned by dockerImageSource.GetBlob,
+// which can transparently resume some (very limited) kinds of aborted connections.
+type bodyReader struct {
+	ctx context.Context
+	c   *dockerClient
+
+	path                string        // path to pass to makeRequest to retry
+	logURL              *url.URL      // a string to use in error messages
+	body                io.ReadCloser // The currently open connection we use to read data, or nil if there is nothing to read from / close.
+	lastRetryOffset     int64
+	offset              int64 // Current offset within the blob
+	firstConnectionTime time.Time
+	lastSuccessTime     time.Time // time.Time{} if N/A
+}
+
+// newBodyReader creates a bodyReader for request path in c.
+// firstBody is an already correctly opened body for the blob, returing the full blob from the start.
+// If reading from firstBody fails, bodyReader may heuristically decide to resume.
+func newBodyReader(ctx context.Context, c *dockerClient, path string, firstBody io.ReadCloser) (io.ReadCloser, error) {
+	logURL, err := c.resolveRequestURL(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	res := &bodyReader{
+		ctx: ctx,
+		c:   c,
+
+		path:                path,
+		logURL:              logURL,
+		body:                firstBody,
+		lastRetryOffset:     0,
+		offset:              0,
+		firstConnectionTime: time.Now(),
+	}
+	return res, nil
+}
+
+// parseDecimalInString ensures that s[start:] starts with a non-negative decimal number, and returns that number and the offset after the number.
+func parseDecimalInString(s string, start int) (int64, int, error) {
+	i := start
+	for i < len(s) && s[i] >= '0' && s[i] <= '9' {
+		i++
+	}
+	if i == start {
+		return -1, -1, errors.New("missing decimal number")
+	}
+	v, err := strconv.ParseInt(s[start:i], 10, 64)
+	if err != nil {
+		return -1, -1, fmt.Errorf("parsing number: %w", err)
+	}
+	return v, i, nil
+}
+
+// parseExpectedChar ensures that s[pos] is the expected byte, and returns the offset after it.
+func parseExpectedChar(s string, pos int, expected byte) (int, error) {
+	if pos == len(s) || s[pos] != expected {
+		return -1, fmt.Errorf("missing expected %q", expected)
+	}
+	return pos + 1, nil
+}
+
+// parseContentRange ensures that res contains a Content-Range header with a byte range, and returns (first, last, completeLength) on success. Size can be -1.
+func parseContentRange(res *http.Response) (int64, int64, int64, error) {
+	hdrs := res.Header.Values("Content-Range")
+	switch len(hdrs) {
+	case 0:
+		return -1, -1, -1, errors.New("missing Content-Range: header")
+	case 1:
+		break
+	default:
+		return -1, -1, -1, fmt.Errorf("ambiguous Content-Range:, %d header values", len(hdrs))
+	}
+	hdr := hdrs[0]
+	expectedPrefix := "bytes "
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(hdr, expectedPrefix) {
+		return -1, -1, -1, fmt.Errorf("invalid Content-Range: %q, missing prefix %q", hdr, expectedPrefix)
+	}
+	first, pos, err := parseDecimalInString(hdr, len(expectedPrefix))
+	if err != nil {
+		return -1, -1, -1, fmt.Errorf("invalid Content-Range: %q, parsing first-pos: %w", hdr, err)
+	}
+	pos, err = parseExpectedChar(hdr, pos, '-')
+	if err != nil {
+		return -1, -1, -1, fmt.Errorf("invalid Content-Range: %q: %w", hdr, err)
+	}
+	last, pos, err := parseDecimalInString(hdr, pos)
+	if err != nil {
+		return -1, -1, -1, fmt.Errorf("invalid Content-Range: %q, parsing last-pos: %w", hdr, err)
+	}
+	pos, err = parseExpectedChar(hdr, pos, '/')
+	if err != nil {
+		return -1, -1, -1, fmt.Errorf("invalid Content-Range: %q: %w", hdr, err)
+	}
+	completeLength := int64(-1)
+	if pos < len(hdr) && hdr[pos] == '*' {
+		pos++
+	} else {
+		completeLength, pos, err = parseDecimalInString(hdr, pos)
+		if err != nil {
+			return -1, -1, -1, fmt.Errorf("invalid Content-Range: %q, parsing complete-length: %w", hdr, err)
+		}
+	}
+	if pos < len(hdr) {
+		return -1, -1, -1, fmt.Errorf("invalid Content-Range: %q, unexpected trailing content", hdr)
+	}
+	return first, last, completeLength, nil
+}
+
+// Read implements io.ReadCloser
+func (br *bodyReader) Read(p []byte) (int, error) {
+	if br.body == nil {
+		return 0, fmt.Errorf("internal error: bodyReader.Read called on a closed object for %s", br.logURL.Redacted())
+	}
+	n, err := br.body.Read(p)
+	br.offset += int64(n)
+	switch {
+	case err == nil || err == io.EOF:
+		br.lastSuccessTime = time.Now()
+		return n, err // Unlike the default: case, don’t log anything.
+
+	case errors.Is(err, io.ErrUnexpectedEOF) || errors.Is(err, syscall.ECONNRESET):
+		originalErr := err
+		redactedURL := br.logURL.Redacted()
+		if err := br.errorIfNotReconnecting(originalErr, redactedURL); err != nil {
+			return n, err
+		}
+
+		if err := br.body.Close(); err != nil {
+			logrus.Debugf("Error closing blob body: %v", err) // … and ignore err otherwise
+		}
+		br.body = nil
+		time.Sleep(1*time.Second + time.Duration(rand.Intn(100_000))*time.Microsecond) // Some jitter so that a failure blip doesn’t cause a deterministic stampede
+
+		headers := map[string][]string{
+			"Range": {fmt.Sprintf("bytes=%d-", br.offset)},
+		}
+		res, err := br.c.makeRequest(br.ctx, http.MethodGet, br.path, headers, nil, v2Auth, nil)
+		if err != nil {
+			return n, fmt.Errorf("%w (while reconnecting: %v)", originalErr, err)
+		}
+		consumedBody := false
+		defer func() {
+			if !consumedBody {
+				res.Body.Close()
+			}
+		}()
+		switch res.StatusCode {
+		case http.StatusPartialContent: // OK
+			// A client MUST inspect a 206 response's Content-Type and Content-Range field(s) to determine what parts are enclosed and whether additional requests are needed.
+			// The recipient of an invalid Content-Range MUST NOT attempt to recombine the received content with a stored representation.
+			first, last, completeLength, err := parseContentRange(res)
+			if err != nil {
+				return n, fmt.Errorf("%w (after reconnecting, invalid Content-Range header: %v)", originalErr, err)
+			}
+			// We don’t handle responses that start at an unrequested offset, nor responses that terminate before the end of the full blob.
+			if first != br.offset || (completeLength != -1 && last+1 != completeLength) {
+				return n, fmt.Errorf("%w (after reconnecting at offset %d, got unexpected Content-Range %d-%d/%d)", originalErr, br.offset, first, last, completeLength)
+			}
+			// Continue below
+		case http.StatusOK:
+			return n, fmt.Errorf("%w (after reconnecting, server did not process a Range: header, status %d)", originalErr, http.StatusOK)
+		default:
+			err := registryHTTPResponseToError(res)
+			return n, fmt.Errorf("%w (after reconnecting, fetching blob: %v)", originalErr, err)
+		}
+
+		logrus.Debugf("Succesfully reconnected to %s", redactedURL)
+		consumedBody = true
+		br.body = res.Body
+		br.lastRetryOffset = br.offset
+		return n, nil
+
+	default:
+		logrus.Debugf("Error reading blob body from %s: %#v", br.logURL.Redacted(), err)
+		return n, err
+	}
+}
+
+// millisecondsSince is like time.Since(tm).Milliseconds, but it returns a floating-point value
+func millisecondsSince(tm time.Time) float64 {
+	return float64(time.Since(tm).Nanoseconds()) / 1_000_000.0
+}
+
+// errorIfNotReconnecting makes a heuristic decision whether we should reconnect after err at redactedURL; if so, it returns nil,
+// otherwise it returns an appropriate error to return to the caller (possibly augmented with data about the heuristic)
+func (br *bodyReader) errorIfNotReconnecting(originalErr error, redactedURL string) error {
+	totalTime := millisecondsSince(br.firstConnectionTime)
+	failureTime := math.NaN()
+	if (br.lastSuccessTime != time.Time{}) {
+		failureTime = millisecondsSince(br.lastSuccessTime)
+	}
+	logrus.Debugf("Reading blob body from %s failed (%#v), decision inputs: lastRetryOffset %d, offset %d, %.3f ms since first connection, %.3f ms since last progress",
+		redactedURL, originalErr, br.lastRetryOffset, br.offset, totalTime, failureTime)
+	progress := br.offset - br.lastRetryOffset
+	if progress < bodyReaderMinimumProgress {
+		logrus.Debugf("Not reconnecting to %s because only %d bytes progress made", redactedURL, progress)
+		return fmt.Errorf("(heuristic tuning data: last retry %d, current offset %d; %.3f ms total, %.3f ms since progress): %w",
+			br.lastRetryOffset, br.offset, totalTime, failureTime, originalErr)
+	}
+	logrus.Infof("Reading blob body from %s failed (%v), reconnecting…", redactedURL, originalErr)
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Close implements io.ReadCloser
+func (br *bodyReader) Close() error {
+	if br.body == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	err := br.body.Close()
+	br.body = nil
+	return err
+}
diff --git a/docker/body_reader_test.go b/docker/body_reader_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ef702edc7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docker/body_reader_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,110 @@
+package docker
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
+	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
+)
+
+func TestParseDecimalInString(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, prefix := range []string{"", "text", "0"} {
+		for _, suffix := range []string{"", "text"} {
+			for _, c := range []struct {
+				s string
+				v int64
+			}{
+				{"0", 0},
+				{"1", 1},
+				{"0700", 700}, // not octal
+			} {
+				input := prefix + c.s + suffix
+				res, pos, err := parseDecimalInString(input, len(prefix))
+				require.NoError(t, err, input)
+				assert.Equal(t, c.v, res, input)
+				assert.Equal(t, len(prefix)+len(c.s), pos, input)
+			}
+			for _, c := range []string{
+				"-1",
+				"xA",
+				"&",
+				"",
+				"999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999",
+			} {
+				input := prefix + c + suffix
+				_, _, err := parseDecimalInString(input, len(prefix))
+				assert.Error(t, err, c)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseExpectedChar(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, prefix := range []string{"", "text", "0"} {
+		for _, suffix := range []string{"", "text"} {
+			input := prefix + "+" + suffix
+			pos, err := parseExpectedChar(input, len(prefix), '+')
+			require.NoError(t, err, input)
+			assert.Equal(t, len(prefix)+1, pos, input)
+
+			_, err = parseExpectedChar(input, len(prefix), '-')
+			assert.Error(t, err, input)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParseContentRange(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, c := range []struct {
+		in                          string
+		first, last, completeLength int64
+	}{
+		{"bytes 0-0/1", 0, 0, 1},
+		{"bytes 010-020/030", 10, 20, 30},
+		{"bytes 1000-1010/*", 1000, 1010, -1},
+	} {
+		first, last, completeLength, err := parseContentRange(&http.Response{
+			Header: http.Header{
+				http.CanonicalHeaderKey("Content-Range"): []string{c.in},
+			},
+		})
+		require.NoError(t, err, c.in)
+		assert.Equal(t, c.first, first, c.in)
+		assert.Equal(t, c.last, last, c.in)
+		assert.Equal(t, c.completeLength, completeLength, c.in)
+	}
+
+	for _, hdr := range []http.Header{
+		nil,
+		{http.CanonicalHeaderKey("Content-Range"): []string{}},
+		{http.CanonicalHeaderKey("Content-Range"): []string{"bytes 1-2/3", "bytes 1-2/3"}},
+	} {
+		_, _, _, err := parseContentRange(&http.Response{
+			Header: hdr,
+		})
+		assert.Error(t, err)
+	}
+
+	for _, c := range []string{
+		"",
+		"notbytes 1-2/3",
+		"bytes ",
+		"bytes x-2/3",
+		"bytes 1*2/3",
+		"bytes 1",
+		"bytes 1-",
+		"bytes 1-x/3",
+		"bytes 1-2",
+		"bytes 1-2@3",
+		"bytes 1-2/",
+		"bytes 1-2/*a",
+		"bytes 1-2/3a",
+	} {
+		_, _, _, err := parseContentRange(&http.Response{
+			Header: http.Header{
+				http.CanonicalHeaderKey("Content-Range"): []string{c},
+			},
+		})
+		assert.Error(t, err, c, c)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/docker/docker_client.go b/docker/docker_client.go
index 4829e24da7..6601363d3b 100644
--- a/docker/docker_client.go
+++ b/docker/docker_client.go
@@ -975,7 +975,14 @@ func (c *dockerClient) getBlob(ctx context.Context, ref dockerReference, info ty
 		return nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("fetching blob: %w", err)
 	}
 	cache.RecordKnownLocation(ref.Transport(), bicTransportScope(ref), info.Digest, newBICLocationReference(ref))
-	return res.Body, getBlobSize(res), nil
+	blobSize := getBlobSize(res)
+
+	reconnectingReader, err := newBodyReader(ctx, c, path, res.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		res.Body.Close()
+		return nil, 0, err
+	}
+	return reconnectingReader, blobSize, nil
 }
 
 // getOCIDescriptorContents returns the contents a blob spcified by descriptor in ref, which must fit within limit.