Getting URL Status in Java

To Get whether the url in active status,

1.Import the necessary header files for getting httpconnection,sockettimeout
type, and so on.

2.Do the following,


u = new URL(urlString); //for setting connection to an url type.
int statuscode=-1;
HttpURLConnection huc = ( HttpURLConnection ) u.openConnection ();
huc.setRequestMethod ("GET");
huc.connect () ;
statusCode = huc.getResponseCode(); //returns the current status of the url
through its status code.

Active Status code is 200.

Useful in accessing only active sites.