How can I get the description of ResponseCode of HttpURLConnection?

Question

After calling the following code, getResponseCode() returns the response code returned by the remote HTTP server. This code has a short description. How can I get its description programmatically in Android?

URL myurl = new URL(url);
URLConnection connection = myurl.openConnection();
HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection) connection;
int responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode();

UPDATE

httpConnection.getResponseMessage() sometimes returns "not found" whereas responseCode is valid

Answer 1

try getResponseMessage(), it will a string message you may interesting.

Answer 2

Try

httpConnection.getResponseMessage() 

Answer 3

The docs say:

Gets the HTTP response message, if any, returned along with the response code from a server. >From responses like: HTTP/1.0 200 OK HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found Extracts the Strings "OK" and "Not Found" respectively. Returns null if none could be >discerned from the responses (the result was not valid HTTP).

Maybe there isn't a message from your server? You can also write your own method which will return descriptions for codes. e.g

    public static String getMessage(int code) {
        switch(code) {
            case 200: return "OK";
        }
    }

Answer 4

you're more than welcome to check the HTTP/1.1 RFC that holds exactly what you're looking for.