Read error response body in Java

Question

In Java, this code throws an exception when the HTTP result is 404 range:

URL url = new URL(\"http://stackoverflow.com/asdf404notfound\");
HttpURLConnection          


        

Answer 1

InputStream is = null;
if (httpConn.getResponseCode() !=200) {
    is = httpConn.getErrorStream();
} else {
     /* error from server */
    is = httpConn.getInputStream();
}