If you open a URLConnection with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Object of URLConnection that is returned from openConnection is a HttpURLConnection. This class defines a method, which is able to access the status code of the http response. To get the status of your http reesponse, it is necessary to cast the URLConnection Object to a HttpURLConnection, and invoke the method getResponseCode().
URL url = new URL ( “http://1br.de/” ); URLConnection connection = url.openConnection(); Int code; connection.connect(); if ( connection instanceof HttpURLConnection) { HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection) connection; code = httpConnection.getResponseCode(); } // In this case the code is 200
Most used codes are:
- 200 OK
- 301 Moved Permanently
- 401 Unauthorized
- 403 Forbidden
- 404 Not Found
- 500 Internal Server Error
A list of available HTTP Response codes can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes.