An exception of this type is thrown when an HTTP request needs to be retried (due to a server redirect or authentication request, for example) but the protocol handler cannot automatically retry it because the HttpURLConnection has been placed in streaming mode. (See the setFixedLengthStreamingMode( ) and setChunkedStreamingMode( ) methods of HttpURLConnection.) The methods of the exception provide details about how the request should be retried.

Figure 12-4. java.net.HttpRetryException

public class HttpRetryException extends java.io.IOException {
// Public Constructors
     public HttpRetryException(String detail, int code);  
     public HttpRetryException(String detail, int code, String location);  
// Public Instance Methods
     public String getLocation( );  
     public String getReason( );  
     public int responseCode( );  
}