Thread: Problems Making a "POST" to a Socket

I am having problems making a Post from an HTML page to a Socket. It appears that when I attempt to parse the input, the blank line between the header and data (line 6 of the HTML post example below) causes the "inputStream" never to return.

....
  outputStream = new BufferedOutputStream(clientSocket.getOutputStream());
  InputStream inputStream = new BufferedInputStream(clientSocket.getInputStream());
 
  StringBuilder sbRequest = new StringBuilder();
  while (true) {
    int byRead = inputStream.read();
    if (byRead == -1) break;    
    sbRequest.append((char)byRead);
  }
  String sRequest = new String(sbRequest);
...

An example of a HTML post.

POST /login.jsp HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mysite.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0
Content-Length: 27
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
 
userid=joe&password=guessme

Any help will be gratefully receive.

Kind Regards,
Harold Clements