getting response code from HttpURLConnection in android

Question

i am establishing connection with the server and its working fine. But there are times when i try to get the response code (when server is throwing back 401, 403, 404) i am getting IO Exception. I am handling everything based on the response code. So when it throws IO exception on

http.getResponseCode()

i am not able to read the response code. Please suggest a solution for this.

Answer 1

Prior to android 2.3 HttpUrlConnection has few issues. Its better to use Defaulthttpclient api. Seems your issue is similar to this.