How to retrieve HTTP POST events

[Jacob]

I have sent a request to some network server and will get
the response as a HTTP POST message on a specified socket.

How do I write a Java daemon that will listen for this response?

Thanks!

 

[Jacob]

I have sent a request to some network server and will get
the response as a HTTP POST message on a specified socket.

How do I write a Java daemon that will listen for this response?

I've made an attempt along the lines of:

ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket (80);
Socket socket = serverSocket.accept();
System.out.println ("connection");

But it never pass the accept() method (i.e. no connections are
apparently made). I haven't verified if the POST event is actually
sent, but at this point I assume any bugs are on my side

How do I proceed? Are there any security issues? How can I verify
the HTTP POST (is there a log)? BTW: I run the code on linux as root.

Thanks!