I am running 5.5.15 but the list doesn't show it (it only shows up to 5.5.14). I have tried this on Linux 
JDK 1.5.0_06 and Mac OS X JDK 1.5.0_05

This is my servlet code pruned of all nonessentials:

package com.tecnoguru.test;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import java.io.*;

public class Test extends HttpServlet {
  public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
          throws ServletException, IOException {
    doIt(req, res);
  }

  public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
          throws ServletException, IOException {
    doIt(req, res);
  }

  public void doIt(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res)
          throws ServletException, IOException {
    BufferedReader rdr = req.getReader();
    PrintWriter wrt = res.getWriter();
    String line = rdr.readLine();
    wrt.println(line);
  }
}

This is the result when doing a telnet to port 8080. Note that I did not do anything after the blank line 
in the request, the response started immediately. The lines I typed are prefixed by >, the lines returned 
are prefixed by <:

>telnet localhost 8080
<Trying ::1...
<Connected to localhost.
<Escape character is '^]'.
>GET /Test/test HTTP/1.0
>
<HTTP/1.1 200 OK
<Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
<Content-Length: 6
<Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 01:15:14 GMT
<Connection: close
<
<null
<Connection closed by foreign host.

>telnet localhost 8080
<Trying ::1...
<Connected to localhost.
<Escape character is '^]'.
>POST /Test/test HTTP/1.0
>
<HTTP/1.1 200 OK
<Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
<Content-Length: 6
<Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 01:15:42 GMT
<Connection: close
<
<null
<Connection closed by foreign host.