Java HttpURLConnection.getInputStream but get 401 IOException

Question

I am writing a REST client for CouchDB in Java. The following code should be quite standard:

    this.httpCnt.connect();
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Answer 1

You need to check for the http status using getResponseCode() to decide if you should use getInputStream() or getErrorStream(). In this case, you need to read the error stream.

Answer 2

See this question:

"The HttpURLConnection.getErrorStream method will return an InputStream which can be used to retrieve data from error conditions (such as a 404), according to the javadocs."