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Posted by Juan Gallardo
Juan Gallardo
1,568 Points

Task 2 of 3 code challenge. Establish a connection to the URL using the appropriate method of the 'connection' variable

Pretty sure that this is way off

try {
    URL treehouseUrl = new URL(URL);
    HttpURLConnection connection  = (HttpURLConnection) treehouseUrl.openConnection();
    connection.connect();
    int httpResponse = getResponseCode();
}

2 Answers

Jaroslav Vankat
Jaroslav Vankat
12,054 Points
Jaroslav Vankat
Jaroslav Vankat
12,054 Points

You need to get the response code from the connection variable. So you need to write

int httpResponse = connection.responseCode;
Juan Gallardo
Juan Gallardo
1,568 Points

This did not work. I tried

try {
        URL treehouseUrl = new URL(URL);
        HttpURLConnection connection  = (HttpURLConnection) treehouseUrl.openConnection();
        connection.connect();
        int httpResponse = connection.responseCode;
}
Jaroslav Vankat
Jaroslav Vankat
12,054 Points
Jaroslav Vankat
Jaroslav Vankat
12,054 Points

I'm really sorry, my fault, it's not 

int httpResponse = connection.responseCode;

but 

int httpResponse = connection.getResponseCode();

So the code should look like that (this works for me):

            URL treehouseUrl = new URL(URL);
            HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) treehouseUrl.openConnection();
            connection.connect();
            int httpResponse = connection.getResponseCode();