Java socket read - why doesn't IIS close the socket?

[Jonny]

Hi everybody,

I'm having problems with the following code:

InputStream hostIn = hostSock.getInp utStream();

while (true) {
try {
iRead = hostIn.read(m_B uf);
}
catch (IOException ex1) {
System.out.prin tln("Error on receive.");
}
if (iRead == -1) {
break;
}
m_HostRcv.add(n ew ByteArr( (byte[]) m_Buf.clone(), iRead) );
rcvSum += iRead;
}

This code works fine with Apache webservers. hostIn.read returns -1 if
there is nothing left to read. On IIS webservers the read method
simply blocks if there is nothing left to receive. IIS doesn't seem to
close the socket. What can I do to avoid this? How do other people
handle this?

Thanks in advance for your postings.

Jonny