Connecting an input stream to an outputstream

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Just because you use a buffer doesn’t mean the stream has to fill that buffer. In other words, this should be okay:

public static void copyStream(InputStream input, OutputStream output)
    throws IOException
{
    byte[] buffer = new byte[1024]; // Adjust if you want
    int bytesRead;
    while ((bytesRead = input.read(buffer)) != -1)
    {
        output.write(buffer, 0, bytesRead);
    }
}

That should work fine – basically the read call will block until there’s some data available, but it won’t wait until it’s all available to fill the buffer. (I suppose it could, and I believe FileInputStream usually will fill the buffer, but a stream attached to a socket is more likely to give you the data immediately.)

I think it’s worth at least trying this simple solution first.

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