Partially deserialized objects?

I am trying to send a serialized object from a JSP to another servlet
through HTTP, but I keep running into an invalid stream header
exception. My theory is that the servlet is (for some reason or
another) not reading the whole serialized object. I have tried placing
logging statements at different stages of the serialized object. If I
specify the Content-Length of the serialized object more logging
statements show up, but I still run into the invalid stream header
problem. Am I missing something critical? Has anybody else seen this
(or a similar) problem before?

Cheers,
Eric Czarny
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