Problems obtaining POST data / content using Sockets

Question

Hi,
I have a servlet which needs to listen on a specific port for HTTP post requests.
At present I have the following code:
try{
   inputStream=client.getInputStream();
   streamReader=new InputStreamReader(inputStream);
   reader=new BufferedReader(streamReader);
}catch(IOException e){
   //Write error entry in the log file.
//Get the request and HOPEFULLY the params...
try{
   System.out.println("encoder "+streamReader.getEncoding());
   for (String thisLine = reader.readLine();thisLine!=null;thisLine = reader.readLine()){
      if (thisLine!=null){
     System.out.println(thisLine);
}     This produces the following....
POST /sms HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-
powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, */*
Referer: http://localhost/test.html
Accept-Language: en-gb
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)
Host: 127.0.0.1:9999
Content-Length: 74
Connection: Keep-Alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
I can see that the content is there 74 bytes of it, and it is encoded application/x-www-form-urlencoded, however I don't understand what I need to do to get the FORM information???????
It works fine if it is an HTTP Get, however I have to get it to work with a POST.
Can Anyone help??????????
Thanks
Glenn

Answer 1

client is a java.net.Socket.
Found some further information:
I'm actually getting an exception I've just noticed from the log files see below:
java.net.SocketException: Connection reset by peer: JVM_recv in socket input stream read
     at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead(Native Method)
     at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
     at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
     at java.io.InputStreamReader.fill(Unknown Source)
     at java.io.InputStreamReader.read(Unknown Source)
     at java.io.BufferedReader.fill(Unknown Source)
     at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(Unknown Source)
     at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(Unknown Source)
     at com.nokia.wap.server.IM.service.hd.run(hd.java:108)
the offending line in my code from above is line 108:
for (String thisLine = reader.readLine();thisLine!=null;thisLine = reader.readLine()){though i'm not sure if this is a code problem / when I close the html browser and hence cancel the http request?!
sorry to add to the situation. :o(