HTTP Server read available socket data?

Question

I am trying to read data from my http client, and it appears that nothing is available at the time i call input.available() UNLESS I sleep for 100ms before I grab the data. This is a really bad hack, is there a better way to do this??
        // create a byte array to hold input
        thePanelThread.sleep(100);
        byte[] data = new byte [ input.available() ];
        socket.getInputStream().read( data );

Answer 1

You know how many bytes are read, there is no need to guess it:
public int read(byte[] b)
         throws IOException
    Reads some number of bytes from the input stream and stores them into the buffer array b.
The number of bytes actually read is returned as an integer.
This method blocks until input data is available, end of file is detected, or an exception is thrown.
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