MIDI file parser breaks up on http connection

Name: fb126949 Date: 08/22/2003


I have an applet that plays a MIDI file.
First I had a small MIDI file with 2 tracks, about 2kb. It ran fine in the
applet, both file: protocol (locally) as http: protocol (remote).

Then I tried to open a larger MIDI file, 5 tracks, 12Kb. I get an exception
when I run the applet using a http url in MSIE6.0, Java Plug-in Version
1.4.2:
IO exception:

java.io.EOFException
 at com.sun.media.sound.SMFParser.nextTrack(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.media.sound.StandardMidiFileReader.getSequence(Unknown Source)
 at com.sun.media.sound.StandardMidiFileReader.getSequence(Unknown Source)

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Now I use
result = MidiSystem.getSequence(new BufferedInputStream(url.openStream()));

(The BufferedInputStream is necessary for the required mark and reset operations.)

instead of
result = MidiSystem.getSequence(url);

This solved my problem.


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