Reading from http server

Question

Hi guys and girls,
I've got a simple problem: i'm busy programming a browser (for now it's a simple text based browser) and everything works fine, the connection works and it gets all http headers and the html file. But once and a while my program doesn't terminate properly and i think it's got something to do with the following loop:
/* Read the first line returned by the server */
String fromServer = input.readLine();
while (fromServer != null){
System.out.print(fromServer+"\r\n");
/* Read the next line untill that line is blank*/
fromServer = input.readLine();
Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesnt (mind you: the http headers are received before this loop, so that's not the problem). This loop should get the html file at the specified url: at some locations it just keeps running and it doesn't exit, so this loop isn't exited because right after it i close my connections and perform a System.exit().
Does anyone have any idea what my problem is? The loop should stop when the server doesn't send anymore lines from the html file: it shows the html closing tag everytime so that is the last line from the html file, yet it fails to exit the loop. The weird thing is: sometimes it works properly, sometimes it doesn't., and when it doesn't it doesn't show input anymore so all html text is sent by the server.
Are there other ways to make the program exit the loop when all the lines from the html file are sent?
The input stream i use is a buffered inputstream reader:
input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(c.getInputStream()));
Hope you understand the problem :)

Answer 1

1. You didn't show what kind of connection u get. For example HttpConnection may be looped due
to response redirection.
2. I think the best practice for the case is to read bytes from the stream but not lines, for instance:
int c = 0;
while( (c=in.read())>=0 ){
.... do something
}