HttpURLConnection responsecode is randomly -1

Question

Hi I\'m using following code to establish a url connection. But randomly I get the responseCode -1 (which is the default value of responseCode):

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Answer 1

UrlConnection is buggy.

See this blog post from the official Android Developer's blog for a pre-Gingerbread workaround for one problem.

My advice, don't use it. It was still being flaky for me on 3.2. I switched to HttpClient and things have been less bad.