FileNotFoundException when calling webservice

Question

Hello I got past my initial problem. I\'m a total android noob, this is my first app. I\'m testing this on the Android emulator. I try to connect to a .NET webservice at h

Answer 1

The HttpURLConnection class is misleading in that it will throw a FileNotFoundException for any HTTP error code of 400 or above.

So it's not necessarily an incorrect URL (404) it could be 400 (bad request), 403 (forbidden), 500 (internal server error) or something else.

Use the getResponseCode method to get a more precise indication of the problem.