Java Socket Readline

gistfile1.java

/* Crude implementation of a readLine function -> used to get HTTP headers from a socket InputStream
 * Then you may get the rest of the binary data by just calling sock.getInputStream().read()
 */
public static String readLine(Socket sock) {
		String line = new String();
		int c;

		try {
			while ((c = sock.getInputStream().read()) != '\n') {
				line += (char) c;
			}
		} catch (IOException e) {
			System.err.println("Error reading line from stream");
			System.exit(-14);
		}

		// We may have a trailing return
		line = line.trim();

		// System.out.println("Read Line " + line);
		return line;
	}