Dukes for BufferedReader Hanging Problem

Question

Hi,
I have an assignment I'm working on, and I've hit a road block; We're basically writing our own proxy server to handle GET calls for txt and .ps files respectively.
My problem is that after I've connected to a server, i.e. Geocities, I send the message I recieved from my browser and then I wait for a reply. The problem is I end up waiting until my connection to the server times out.
I've tried the following:
Looping around until the BufferedReader.ready() = true;
and
Waiting on the readLine()
and
Trying to do just a read() as well
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you for your time!
Also as a side note , so I don't get chewed out for sillyness, we're only allowed to use sockets and serversockets, no classes that start with URL.
Here's the code for sending and recieving as well as my output:
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System.out.println("Trying to Send Request to : " + location);
for (int i = 0; i < request.length; i++)
try
System.out.println("\tSending: " + request);
outstream.writeBytes(request[i] + "\n");
} catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("Error: Message Line #"+i+" couldn't be sent: " + e); }
try
System.out.println("Trying to Get Response from attached Location:" + location);
my_message = instream.readLine(); //Hangs Here
if (my_message != null)
while(my_message != null)
System.out.println("\t"+ my_message);
full_message += my_message + "\n";
my_message = instream.readLine();
reply = full_message.split("\n");
} catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("Error Recieving Response from " + location + ": "+e); }
return reply;
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Output:
Incoming Request from XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
-->GET http://www.geocities.com/shotgunmoose/wife.txt HTTP/1.0
-->Host: www.geocities.com
-->User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
-->Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
-->Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
-->Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
-->Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
-->Keep-Alive: 300
-->Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Connected to location : www.geocities.com
Trying to Send Request to : www.geocities.com
     Sending: GET http://www.geocities.com/shotgunmoose/wife.txt HTTP/1.0
     Sending: Host: www.geocities.com
     Sending: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040626 Firefox/0.9.1
     Sending: Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
     Sending: Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
     Sending: Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
     Sending: Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
     Sending: Keep-Alive: 300
     Sending: Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Trying to Get Response from attached Location:www.geocities.com
Error Recieving Response from www.geocities.com: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset

Answer 1

Never Mind, problem solved;
I wasn't finishing the HTTP GET with 2 consecutive newlines!
Let this post be a lesson to all.. read the api's carefull.