readObject() throwing EOFException

[Colleen Lynch]

Hi there...
I am trying to send an object (Vector) from an applet to a servlet. When I call readObject in the servlet, it throws an EOFException. Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong here?
Here is the code in the applet:

connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",application/octet-stream");
ObjectOutputStream out = new ObjectOutputStream(connection.getOutputStream());
out.writeObject(new Vector());
out.flush();
out.close(); 

And for the servlet:

try {
   ObjectInputStream in = new ObjectInputStream(request.getInputStream());
    Vector test = (Vector)in.readObject();  //could use while (in.available() > 0) here to avoid the exception
    in.close();
} catch (EOFException eof) {
} catch (Exception e) {
}

If anyone has any ideas, I would really appreciate it!!!
Thanks
[This message has been edited by Colleen Lynch (edited November 07, 2001).]

[Jon Branham]

I actually have the same problem with a shopping cart object. Within its readObject method i print out all of the data, which is read in perfectly. The readObject method exits and somewhere between that and the typecasting back to the Cart object i get the EOFException.

[Jon Branham]

ok im dumb, i was serializing the cart into a mysql binary field that was too small. I realized this after comparing byte lengths of the input and output byte arrays. Thats where my EOFException came from.