java.io.IOException: Server returns HTTP response code 505

Question

I have HTML based queries in my code and one specific kind seems to give rise to IOExceptions upon receiving 505 response from the server. I have looked up the

Answer 1

Are you behind a proxy? This code works for me and prints out the same text I see through a browser.

final URL url = new URL("http://www.uniprot.org/uniprot/?query=mnemonic%3aNUGM_HUMAN&format=tab&columns=id,entry%20name,reviewed,organism,length");
final URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
final InputStream is = conn.getInputStream();
System.out.println(IOUtils.toString(is));

conn is an instance of HttpURLConnection