Safe use of HttpURLConnection

Question

When using HttpURLConnection does the InputStream need to be closed if we do not \'get\' and use it?

i.e. is this safe?

HttpURLConnection conn = (Htt         


        

Answer 1

You also have to close error stream if the HTTP request fails (anything but 200):

try {
  ...
}
catch (IOException e) {
  connection.getErrorStream().close();
}

If you don't do it, all requests that don't return 200 (e.g. timeout) will leak one socket.