BufferedReader.ready() keeps returning false using JSSE 1.0.2/jdk 1.2.2

Question

I'm running into difficulties reading a response data stream from a server via HTTPS. The SSL sets up fine (I can see both the client side and server side certificate chains, and the two sides can handshake and agree on a cipher (SSL_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA in this case)). I get no errors getting the output or input streams from the socket, and the GET request seems to work (no errors reported by the PrintWriter), but in.ready() returns false, and the while loop exits immediately. But I know there is data available (I can paste the printed url into Netscape and get data back). Since this should not be all that complex once the SSL session is established, I'm probably missing something silly, Can someone tell me what it is please?
Thanks
Doug
// code excerpt
// just finished printing the cipher suite, cert chains, etc
try{
out = new PrintWriter(
new BufferedWriter(
new outputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream() )));
} catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("Error getting input and output streams from socket ");
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
throw(e);
try{   // time to submit the request and get the data
// build the URL to get
// tried constructing it here and nailing it up at declaration time - no difference
// path = "https://" + dlp.host + ":" + Integer.toString(dlp.port) + "/" +
// dlp.basePath + "?StartDate=" + longDateFmtURL.format(dlp.startDate) +
// "&EndDate=" + longDateFmtURL.format(dlp.endDate);
System.out.println("Sending request for URL" );
System.out.println(path);
out.println("GET " + path );
out.println();
out.flush();
* Make sure there were no errors
if (out.checkError()){
System.out.println("Error sending request to server");
throw(new IOException("Error sending request to server")
try{
     in = new BufferedReader(
          new InputStreamReader(
          socket.getInputStream() ));
} catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println("Error getting input stream from socket ");
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
e.printStackTrace();
//System.exit(3);
throw(e);
if (!in.ready()) {   //  in.ready() keeps returning false
System.out.println("Error - socket input stream not ready for reading");
while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
// loop over and process lines if it was ever not null
}

Answer 1

Never mind.
The problem seems to be related to the development/debugging enviroment (Oracle JDeveloper 3.2.3), When I run things outside of that eviroment using the "plain" runtime, it works as expected (back to System.out.println() for debugging). That said, I usually find it to be a nice development/debugging enviroment for Java.