How to read compressed data with an applet (mod_deflate)

Question

My applet reads a text file from a web server by opening a socket (see code below). Since the text file is very large, I would like to use apache's mod_deflate. But the web server doesn't seem to recognize the applet as an application where comepressed data can be send to.
How can I convince the web server? Are there any code snippets?
String command = "GET "+name+" HTTP/1.0\n\n";
StringBuffer retval = new StringBuffer();
String buffer;
boolean isBody=false;     
Socket socket = new Socket(host, port);     
OutputStream out = socket.getOutputStream();
out.write(command.getBytes());     
out.flush();
InputStream in = socket.getInputStream();                    
InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(in);          
BufferedReader bfr = new BufferedReader(isr);
while ((buffer=bfr.readLine())!=null) {
     if (isBody) retval.append(buffer).append("\n");                         
     if (buffer.length()==0) isBody=true;                    
....Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Good hint into the right direction, deflated data arriving now...
.... but how do I inflate them?
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Test2 {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        URL def = new URL("http://demo:8090/deftest/data.txt");
        URLConnection defcon = def.openConnection();
        defcon.setRequestProperty("Accept-Encoding", "gzip,deflate");
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                                new InputStreamReader(
                                defcon.getInputStream()));
        String inputLine;
        while ((inputLine = in.readLine()) != null)
            System.out.println(inputLine);
        in.close();
}Thanks so far, Dieter