Reading A Response From A Web Browses HTTP Request

[haroldjclements]

I have asked a similar question a couple of days ago but I think I did not ask the question very well. I am trying to read the full header of an HTML request. Most of the examples that I read has terminated the while loop when seeing a "GET" returned from the client (Line 5 that is commented out). This is fine if you do not want to read the full header that is being send. My problem is that if I try and read the full head (and / or any data sent in a "POST") this loop hangs just after it see the four byte (13,10,13,10) that signify the end of the header. Which in turn means that I an unable to send a response back the client (which in my case is a web browser). I don't understand how I am to terminate the loop if I want the whole header and data if my socket receives an HTML "POST" request.

				
BufferedReader clientInput = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream()));
StringBuilder sbRequest = new StringBuilder();
String sReadLine = null;
while ((sReadLine = clientInput.readLine()) != null) {
        //if(sReadLine.contains("GET")) break;
	sbRequest.append(sReadLine + "\n");
}

Sorry if this question is in the same vain as a previous one that I post. I just need some help understanding what is going on.

Thanks in advance,
Harold Clements

[Grkn]

I think problem is after GET code you see the \n.

readLine() method terminates when sees \n(newLine character) in buffer.

HEADER=> GET \number .....
You can only see GET then readline gives null so loop exit.

[Grkn]

I can recommend you to use always bytes in network streams