Problems Reading SSL server socket data stream using readByte()

Question

Hi I'm trying to read an SSL server socket stream using readByte(). I need to use readByte() because my program acts an LDAP proxy (receives LDAP messages from an LDAP client then passes them onto an actual LDAP server. It works fine with normal LDAP data streams but once an SSL data stream is introduced, readByte just hangs! Here is my code.....
help!!! anyone?... anyone?
1. SSL Socket is first read into  " InputStream input"
public void     run()
          Authorization     auth = new Authorization();
          try     {
               InputStream     input     =     client.getInputStream();
               while     (true)
               {     StandLdapCommand command;
                    try
                         command = new StandLdapCommand(input);
                         Authorization     t = command.get_auth();
                         if (t != null )
                              auth = t;
                    catch( SocketException e )
                    {     // If socket error, drop the connection
                         Message.Info( "Client connection closed: " + e );
                         close( e );
                         break;
                    catch( EOFException e )
                    {     // If socket error, drop the connection
                         Message.Info( "Client connection close: " + e );
                         close( e );
                         break;
                    catch( Exception e )
                         //Way too many of these to trace them!
                         Message.Error( "Command not processed due to exception");
                         close( e );
                                        break;
                                        //continue;
                    processor.processBefore(auth,     command);
                                try
                                  Thread.sleep(40); //yield to other threads
                                catch(InterruptedException ie) {}
          catch     (Exception e)
               close(e);
2 Then data is sent to an intermediate function 
from this statement in the function above:   command = new StandLdapCommand(input);
     public StandLdapCommand(InputStream     in)     throws IOException
          message     =     LDAPMessage.receive(in);
          analyze();
Then finally, the read function where it hangs at  "int tag = (int)din.readByte(); "
public static LDAPMessage receive(InputStream is) throws IOException
    *  LDAP Message Format =
    *      1.  LBER_SEQUENCE                           --  1 byte
    *      2.  Length                                  --  variable length     = 3 + 4 + 5 ....
    *      3.  ID                                      --  variable length
    *      4.  LDAP_REQ_msg                            --  1 byte
    *      5.  Message specific structure              --  variable length
    DataInputStream din = new DataInputStream(is);
    int tag = public static LDAPMessage receive(InputStream is) throws IOException
    *  LDAP Message Format =
    *      1.  LBER_SEQUENCE                           --  1 byte
    *      2.  Length                                  --  variable length     = 3 + 4 + 5 ....
    *      3.  ID                                      --  variable length
    *      4.  LDAP_REQ_msg                            --  1 byte
    *      5.  Message specific structure              --  variable length
    DataInputStream din = new DataInputStream(is);
       int tag = (int)din.readByte();      // sequence tag// sequence tag
    ...

Answer 1

I suspect you are actually getting an Exception and not tracing the cause properly and then doing a sleep and then getting another Exception. Never ever catch an exception without tracing what it actually is somewhere.
Also I don't know what the sleep is supposed to be for. You will block in readByte() until something comes in, and that should be enough yielding for anybody. The sleep is just literally a waste of time.