Exclude http headers from reponse??

Question

Hi all,
I post data to a server and get response[in xml] back like this
Socket theSock = new Socket(serverhost,80);
PrintStream ps = new PrintStream(theSock.getOutputStream());
ps.println("POST /url HTTP/1.0");
SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder(); //==<< get reponse
Document doc = builder.build(theSock.getInputStream());
.at builder.build I've got "SAXException: Parsing Error : The root element is required in a well-formed document" .
that because output from theSock.getInputStream() is
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:14:54 GMT
Content-Length: 105
Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8
Connection: close
<resp>
<status>200</status>
<description>ok</description>
</resp>I know that if i use HttpURLConnection the response InputStream will not contain http headers. But I'm just curious that with Socket, Is there any trick to get only content from InputStream?

Answer 1

There is no trick except to use the HttpUrlConnection class. That�s why it was created. It wraps the socket and parses through the headers for you. The socket is very low level and all it sees are bits over an input stream (TCP / UDP). It does not know or care about HTTP which is a protocol on top of TCP.