Java app receiving post data

[harmmeijer]

My questions are the comments in the sample code:

The code from burrowing through firewalls tells you how to use a socket on the server side and let the client listen to a Bufferreader (using URL)
The example tells me I should use post and the Keep-Alive of the connection
Well here is the applet code that POST's getNextMsg=true&uniqNum=" + uniqNum++
My problem is how do read this in the server:
here are the applet and server code snippets, (the things I edited)
the complete code is here:

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/InnerWorkings/Burrowing/

applet:
URL baseUrl;
baseUrl = new URL("

http://"

+ host + ":" + port + "/" );



URL u = new URL (baseUrl, encode ("getNextMsg " + uniqNum++));
URLConnection connU = u.openConnection();
connU.setDoOutput(true);
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(
connU.getOutputStream());
out.println("getNextMsg=true&uniqNum=" + uniqNum++);
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(
connU.getInputStream()));
strFromServer = in.readLine ();
in.close ();

server:
...
if (!str.endsWith(" HTTP/1.1&quot) {
...

ServerSocket ss = null;
ss = new ServerSocket(port);
Socket s = null;
s = ss.accept();
DataInputStream in =
new DataInputStream(new BufferedInputStream
(s.getInputStream()));
String str;
StringBuffer stbReadAll = new StringBuffer();


// how do I know when to stop reading the request.
while((str = in.readLine())!=null){
System.out.println("received line: " + str);
stbReadAll.append(str);
}
str = stbReadAll.toString();
//str shows me where the request came from
//now how do I read the submitted values!!!


This is what the output from the server:
C:\jdk1.3.1\bin\code\chaT>java SimpleChatServer
Ready...
waiting to accept
Accept
received line: POST /getNextMsg%206 HTTP/1.1
received line: Accept-Language: en
received line: Content-type: application/x-

http://www-form-urlencoded

received line: Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
received line: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Win32)
received line: Host: localhost:6006
received line: Content-Length: 0
received line: Connection: Keep-Alive
received line: Cache-Control: no-cache
received line: