Question

I am retrieving the Last-Modified value of HTTP response header and attempting to convert the String date value to Date object as:

  ..

  URLConnection urlConnection = url.openConnection();
  Map<String, List<String>> headers = urlConnection.getHeaderFields();
  Date date = new SimpleDateFormat("MMMM d, yyyy",   Locale.ENGLISH).parse(headers.get(LAST_MODIFIED).get(0));

This is throwing the exception:

java.text.ParseException: Unparseable date: “Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:09:24
GMT” at java.text.DateFormat.parse(DateFormat.java:337)

Can someone spot the issue with this?! Thanks.

EDITED.

Answer 1

Just use urlConnection.getLastModified() and convert that long to a date or Calendar.