BufferedReader br = null;
// check to see if SOAPTransport is not nul and receive is
// also not null. hopefully this will improve the error
// reporting. 5/13/05 peter lin
if (st != null && st.receive() != null) {
br = st.receive();
if (this.getPropertyAsBoolean(READ_RESPONSE)) {
StringBuffer buf = new StringBuffer();
String line;
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
buf.append(line);