HttpURLConnection not returning error

Try this...

	static public InputStream submitRequest(String strRqstURL) throws Exception
	{
		URL rqstURL = new URL(strRqstURL);
		HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection)rqstURL.openConnection();
		int resp = con.getResponseCode();
		String respMsg = con.getResponseMessage();
		 
		System.out.println("response code: " + resp);
		System.out.println("response message: " + respMsg);
 
		if(resp==404)
			throw new Exception("Check Exception here:"+respMsg);
 
		return con.getInputStream();
	}
 
	public static void main(String[] arguments) throws Exception
	{
		submitRequest("http://test");
	}

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>>When I send invalid information

How do you send it? The page could well be simply ignoring your 'parameter', even redirecting you to another page entirely. You might try the following at the top of your code to see what happens:

HttpURLConnection.setFollowRedirects(false);

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> When I send invalid information (such as "test") I should get a Error 404 or Bad Gateway however the ResponseCode being returned is 200 & the ResponseMessage is "OK" as if it went through ok.


Why do u expect a 404? Just because you think its invalid doesn't necessarily mean it will return a 404, it depends on how the server is configured.

You need to check exactly what the server is expected to return.

Try loading the url with a browser and see what it returns.

Is the page you are accessing generated by you? If so, are you setting the right headers to indicate a 404?

You are correct.  What was happening is the request was being sent & the server was responding with no problem (hence the 200 status).  I had a problem with Exception catching.  I was not parsing the response correctly and throwing an Exception when the server replied with Error in the xml response.