JSON data problem

Hi Ben, I''d appreciate your help please.

I'm getting a strange error when I try to adapt your BlogReader to read a different URL.

Everything works fine when I use the blog.teamtreehouse.com URL. But when I try the program on different URLs it throws an exception.

If I use the debugger I find the reason for the exception is that contentLength in the following code has a value of -1. The if block starts to execute however, which means responseCode is 200. This happens with any URL I've tried, other than the original Treehouse URL. For example it happens with

URL("https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/search/web?v=1.0&q=JSON"); and with my own blog: URL ("http://friendly-encounters.blogspot.co.uk/feeds/posts/default?alt=json");

BlogReader code snippet if (responseCode==HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) { InputStream inputStream = connection.getInputStream(); Reader reader = new InputStreamReader(inputStream);

                int contentLength = connection.getContentLength();
                char [] charArray = new char[contentLength];
                reader.read(charArray);
                String responseData = new String(charArray);
                Log.v(TAG, responseData);