post data streams

I am stuck.

I am supposed to get from an outside source POST data to a URL

It is apparently in a stream.

The parameters are all there (because it doesn't blow up?) but the data is always null.

Within the application POSTs and GETs work, when I try to run the URL with

www.myURL,com/catUpd.jsp?test=xxxx

I can get the parameter value

The supplier suggested

String myInput = request.getReader().readLine();

this didn't help

Can anyone explain the request.getReader

to me?

Can the problem be a security setting ?

Any suggestions

Lena

[629 byte] By [LenaBa] at [2007-11-27 7:52:34]