Handling dead URLs

Came across this problem when handling an improbable dead url; http://api.saya.im/locbyip which is the Location By IP API. Because I always assumed it will give back something, I failed to handle the odd case of the url being dead.

This can be done with a small one-liner addition
throw new IOException("Response:"+http.getResponseCode()+", "+http.getResponseMessage());

Here's the full code of the openUrl method

public String openUrl(String url) throws IOException, SecurityException{
        byte[] data = null;      
               
        HttpConnection http = (HttpConnection)Connector.open(url, Connector.READ_WRITE, true);
       
        //set custom headers
        http.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1");
        http.setRequestProperty("Accept_Language", "en-US");
                       
        //Read response
        if(http.getResponseCode() == HttpConnection.HTTP_OK){
            int len = (int)http.getLength();
            is = http.openInputStream();
            if(is == null){
                throw new IOException("Cannot open HTTP InputStream, Aborting..");
            }
            //Else continue reading stream
            response = "";
            Reader in = new InputStreamReader(is);
            StringBuffer temp = new StringBuffer(1024);
            char[] buffer = new char[1024];
            int read;
            while((read = in.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) != -1){
                temp.append(buffer, 0, read);
            }
            response = temp.toString();
        }else{
            System.out.println("Response:"+http.getResponseCode()+", "+http.getResponseMessage());
            response = null;
           
            throw new IOException("Response:"+http.getResponseCode()+", "+http.getResponseMessage());          
        }
        if(http != null){
            http.close();
        }
        if(is != null){
            is.close();
        }
       
        return response;
       
    }//--End of openUrl()