HttpURLConnection , Response Code : 404 for HTTP method HEAD 302 for GET

Question

After establishing the connection For the URL : http://calendar.google.com/ the response code is different for different HTTP METHODS.
For the method HEAD the response code is 404
For the method GET the response code is 302
Ideally according to W3 standards the header part for both methods should be same.
www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html
Unfortunately all the websites are not following the same standards.
The above brings up an important issue.
(i.e) soley depending on the HEAD method for checking the validity of the link may fail sometimes even if the link is
valid.
Please put up your comments and observations on this.
Sample Code
public static void main(String[] args) {
try{
URL myurl = new URL("http://calendar.google.com");
URLConnection connection = myurl.openConnection();
if(connection instanceof HttpURLConnection) {
HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection) connection;
HttpURLConnection.setFollowRedirects(true);
httpConnection.setRequestMethod("HEAD");
httpConnection.connect();
System.out.println("Response = "+httpConnection.getResponseCode());
catch(Exception e) {
System.out.println(e);
Edited by: rama.krishna on Dec 3, 2007 3:47 AM

Answer 1

Iam not encountering any problem.It's just a discussion.