HttpURLConnection doesn't handle htaccess redirect

Question

I wrote this code to check if there is redirect and i successed but it doesn't handle htaccess redirect
I know htaccess redirect == 301 but here it give me 200 WHY
I want to handle htaccess redirect any help ?
   URL link=null; int httpResponseCode=0;
    try {
        link = new URL("http://www.vbseo.com/forumdisplay.php?f=234");
        HttpURLConnection linkconnection=(HttpURLConnection)link.openConnection();
        httpResponseCode = linkconnection.getResponseCode();
    } catch (Exception e) {}
    System.out.println(httpResponseCode);

Answer 1

It actually follows redirects automatically, that's why you get a 200 response. It is possible to tell it not to follow redirects, just have a look at the API documentation and you will see the method to call if you want that to happen.