diff --git a/doc/developer-guide/api/functions/TSHttpTxnAborted.en.rst b/doc/developer-guide/api/functions/TSHttpTxnAborted.en.rst
index afa0658a4a7..e5cef8503fe 100644
--- a/doc/developer-guide/api/functions/TSHttpTxnAborted.en.rst
+++ b/doc/developer-guide/api/functions/TSHttpTxnAborted.en.rst
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Synopsis
 
     #include <ts/ts.h>
 
-.. c:function:: TSReturnCode TSHttpTxnAborted(TSHttpTxn txnp)
+.. c:function:: TSReturnCode TSHttpTxnAborted(TSHttpTxn txnp, bool *client_abort)
 
 Description
 -----------
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ Description
 transaction is aborted. This function should be used to determine whether
 a transaction has been aborted before attempting to cache the results.
 
+Broadly, transaction aborts can be classified into either client side aborts or
+server side. To distinguish between these, we have another boolean parameter
+which gets set to TRUE in case of client side aborts.
+
 Return values
 -------------
 
diff --git a/include/ts/ts.h b/include/ts/ts.h
index 61e7d45e251..3a11469a6e8 100644
--- a/include/ts/ts.h
+++ b/include/ts/ts.h
@@ -2356,10 +2356,11 @@ tsapi TSReturnCode TSAIOThreadNumSet(int thread_num);
 
 /**
     Check if transaction was aborted (due client/server errors etc.)
+    Client_abort is set as True, in case the abort was caused by the Client.
 
     @return 1 if transaction was aborted
 */
-tsapi TSReturnCode TSHttpTxnAborted(TSHttpTxn txnp);
+tsapi TSReturnCode TSHttpTxnAborted(TSHttpTxn txnp, bool *client_abort);
 
 tsapi TSVConn TSVConnCreate(TSEventFunc event_funcp, TSMutex mutexp);
 tsapi TSVConn TSVConnFdCreate(int fd);
diff --git a/plugins/esi/esi.cc b/plugins/esi/esi.cc
index 9d223b5f997..67b6fe9e5e0 100644
--- a/plugins/esi/esi.cc
+++ b/plugins/esi/esi.cc
@@ -578,7 +578,8 @@ removeCacheKey(TSHttpTxn txnp)
 static void
 cacheNodeList(ContData *cont_data)
 {
-  if (TSHttpTxnAborted(cont_data->txnp) == TS_SUCCESS) {
+  bool client_abort;
+  if (TSHttpTxnAborted(cont_data->txnp, &client_abort) == TS_SUCCESS) {
     TSDebug(cont_data->debug_tag, "[%s] Not caching node list as txn has been aborted", __FUNCTION__);
     return;
   }
diff --git a/plugins/lua/ts_lua_http.c b/plugins/lua/ts_lua_http.c
index 3cd4aec0f91..8fd5a0395fe 100644
--- a/plugins/lua/ts_lua_http.c
+++ b/plugins/lua/ts_lua_http.c
@@ -767,8 +767,8 @@ ts_lua_http_is_aborted(lua_State *L)
   ts_lua_http_ctx *http_ctx;
 
   GET_HTTP_CONTEXT(http_ctx, L);
-
-  if (TSHttpTxnAborted(http_ctx->txnp)) {
+  bool client_abort = false;
+  if (TSHttpTxnAborted(http_ctx->txnp, &client_abort)) {
     lua_pushnumber(L, 1);
   } else {
     lua_pushnumber(L, 0);
diff --git a/src/traffic_server/InkAPI.cc b/src/traffic_server/InkAPI.cc
index db2d1544551..b015eea4645 100644
--- a/src/traffic_server/InkAPI.cc
+++ b/src/traffic_server/InkAPI.cc
@@ -5676,16 +5676,18 @@ TSHttpTxnShutDown(TSHttpTxn txnp, TSEvent event)
 }
 
 TSReturnCode
-TSHttpTxnAborted(TSHttpTxn txnp)
+TSHttpTxnAborted(TSHttpTxn txnp, bool *client_abort)
 {
   sdk_assert(sdk_sanity_check_txn(txnp) == TS_SUCCESS);
 
-  HttpSM *sm = (HttpSM *)txnp;
+  *client_abort = false;
+  HttpSM *sm    = (HttpSM *)txnp;
   switch (sm->t_state.squid_codes.log_code) {
   case SQUID_LOG_ERR_CLIENT_ABORT:
   case SQUID_LOG_ERR_CLIENT_READ_ERROR:
   case SQUID_LOG_TCP_SWAPFAIL:
     // check for client abort and cache read error
+    *client_abort = true;
     return TS_SUCCESS;
   default:
     break;