Question

I’m getting a 503 response from a server that I’m trying to communicate with. Now, it shows me this in the log, but, I want to catch the IOException that it fires and deal with it if and only if the response code is 503, and nothing else. How would I do this?

EDIT:

Here’s part of my code:

inURL = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(myURL.openStream()));

String str;
while ((str = inURL.readLine()) != null) {
    writeTo.write(str + "\n");
}

inURL.close();

Answer 1

If using java.net.HttpURLConnection, use the method getResponseCode()

If using org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpClient, executeMethod(...) returns the response code