SCGI connector (Java) (See related posts)

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.util.HashMap;

/**
 * SCGI connector.<br>
 * Version: 1.0<br>
 * Home page: http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4304
 */
public class SCGI {
  public static class SCGIException extends IOException {
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    public SCGIException(String message) {
      super(message);
    }
  }

  /** Used to decode the headers. */
  public static final Charset ISO_8859_1 = Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1");

  /**
   * Read the <a href="http://python.ca/scgi/protocol.txt">SCGI</a> request headers.<br>
   * After the headers had been loaded,
   * you can read the body of the request manually from the same {@code input} stream:<pre>
   *   // Load the SCGI headers.
   *   Socket clientSocket = socket.accept();
   *   BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(clientSocket.getInputStream(), 4096);
   *   HashMap<String, String> env = SCGI.parse(bis);
   *   // Read the body of the request.
   *   bis.read(new byte[Integer.parseInt(env.get("CONTENT_LENGTH"))]);
   * </pre>
   * @param input an efficient (buffered) input stream.
   * @return strings passed via the SCGI request.
   */
  public static HashMap parse(InputStream input) throws IOException {
    StringBuilder lengthString = new StringBuilder(12);
    String headers = "";
    for (;;) {
      char ch = (char) input.read();
      if (ch >= '0' && ch <= '9') {
        lengthString.append(ch);
      } else if (ch == ':') {
        int length = Integer.parseInt(lengthString.toString());
        byte[] headersBuf = new byte[length];
        int read = input.read(headersBuf);
        if (read != headersBuf.length)
          throw new SCGIException("Couldn't read all the headers (" + length + ").");
        headers = ISO_8859_1.decode(ByteBuffer.wrap(headersBuf)).toString();
        if (input.read() != ',') throw new SCGIException("Wrong SCGI header length: " + lengthString);
        break;
      } else {
        lengthString.append(ch);
        throw new SCGIException("Wrong SCGI header length: " + lengthString);
      }
    }
    HashMap env = new HashMap();
    while (headers.length() != 0) {
      int sep1 = headers.indexOf(0);
      int sep2 = headers.indexOf(0, sep1 + 1);
      env.put(headers.substring(0, sep1), headers.substring(sep1 + 1, sep2));
      headers = headers.substring(sep2 + 1);
    }
    return env;
  }
}