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

My running code.

  HttpURLConnection httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) urlConn;    
 if (httpConn.getResponseCode() < HttpURLConnection.HTTP_BAD_REQUEST) {
                        in = new InputStreamReader(urlConn.getInputStream());
                        BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(in);
                        if (bufferedReader != null) {
                            int cp;
                            while ((cp = bufferedReader.read()) != -1) {
                                sb.append((char) cp);
                            }
                            bufferedReader.close();
                        }
                            in.close();

                    } else {
                        /* error from server */
                        in = new InputStreamReader(httpConn.getErrorStream());
                    BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(in);
                    if (bufferedReader != null) {
                        int cp;
                        while ((cp = bufferedReader.read()) != -1) {
                            sb.append((char) cp);
                        }
                        bufferedReader.close();
                    }    
                    in.close();
                    }
                    System.out.println("sb="+sb);