Not getting all my bytes from inout stream.

Question

hi,
i'm writing an i-appli that interacts with a java web server. my problem is that i'm not getting all of my bytes through to the phone.
actually i'm using an emulator right now. when i use the real phone i set content length on the server side and it all goes through. but for some reason when i set content length on the server the emulator doesn't pick up anything(using i-jade emulators) bug??.
it should work though because when i print out the number from in.available() it matches with the number of bytes that i want to go through.
but when i grab the int from the read it is less than what returns from available().
here's a snippet of the i-appli code. i'm printing out TESTBYTELEN to the screen and it is less than when i set it to 'bc' from in.available. (i'm getting 3784 of 4420 bytes EVERY time)
thanks for any help
matt
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HttpConnection conn = (HttpConnection)Connector.open(IPString,Connector.READ,true);
conn.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.GET);
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type","text/plain");
conn.connect();
InputStream in = conn.openInputStream();
if (in == null)
throw new IOException("servlet unreachable");
bc = in.available();
streamb = new byte[bc];
TESTBYTELEN = in.read(streamb,0,bc);
in.close();
conn.close();
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Answer 1

Also, testing with available is not that good... it just tells you how many bytes can be read without blocking, not the amount of bytes that can actually be read. So the code should be more like:
bc = MAX_BYTES_TO_BE_READ;
streamb = new byte[bc];
int bytesread;
int off = 0;
int len = bc;
while ((bytesread = in.read(streamb,off,len) != -1) {
off += bytesread;
len -= bytesread;
(to clarify, in.read returns the number of bytes that were actually read and -1 when there are no more bytes to be read)