Why do you want to read POST by using reader ? I only use the stream from
request on a PUT request.


On 12/16/06, Scott Carr <scarr@(protected):
>
> Hassan Schroeder wrote:
> > On 12/15/06, Scott Carr <scarr@(protected):
> >> Does a servlet require the use of a Content-Length for the Reader to be
> >> populated?
> >
> > A pretty cursory test seems to indicate not, but I could just be lucky
> > :-)
> >
> >> ...and I want to read each line as they come in, and handle the
> >> request on
> >> a line by line basis.
> >
> > Have you tried this yet? request.getReader() would seem to cover
> > your situation, assuming this isn't binary data.
> >
> Hm, the reason I asked, is because of a test I ran. strLine is always
> null.
>
> Using the following code for processRequest:
>
> response.setContentType("text/plain");
>
>      m_out = response.getWriter();
>      m_bufRead = request.getReader();
>
>      while (true) {
>         strLine = m_bufRead.readLine();
>
>         if (strLine != null) {
>           if (strLine.startsWith("login")) {
>              ProcessLogin();
>           } else if (strLine.startsWith("exit")) {
>              break;
>           }
>         } else {
>           try {
>              Thread.sleep(1000);
>           } catch (InterruptedException ex) {
>              ex.printStackTrace();
>           }
>         }
>      }
>
>      m_bufRead = null;
>      m_out.close();
>
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