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Trying to get a simple java program running. Whenever I try this code though I get a Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalStateException: connect in progress

Here is the code.

public class Checker404 
public static int getResponseCode(String urlString) throws MalformedURLException, IOException 
    URL u = new URL(urlString); 
    HttpURLConnection huc =  (HttpURLConnection)  u.openConnection(); 
    huc.connect(); 
    huc.setRequestMethod("HEAD"); 
    huc.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)");
    huc.disconnect();
    return 1;    
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception 
    final  String URL = "http://www.asda.com";
    Checker404.getResponseCode(URL);
I've tried changing around the huc.connect to before the request property and requestMethod, it will just compile but not do anything. But when it is like this I get the connect in progress error.  Any advice would be welcome. I am a bit new to programming so forgive any inconsistencies I have.
                Thank you. I ended up getting it to work with that. I also just removed the return, changed the int to a void and did system.out.print(huc.getResponseCode and it gives me the status of the webpage.  Thanks!
– Christian
                May 25, 2017 at 17:02
        
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