android getresponsecode -1,android - HttpURLConnection responsecode is randomly -1 - Stack Overflow

Hi I'm using following code to establish a url connection. But randomly I get the responseCode -1 (which is the default value of responseCode):

try {

URL url = new URL(urlString);

HttpURLConnection httpconn = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

if (httpconn.getResponseCode() == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {

handleData(new DataInputStream(httpconn.getInputStream()), requestCode);

} else {

Log.e(TAG, "HttpConnection not OK: " + httpconn.getResponseCode());

ActivityHelper.httpError(this);

}

httpconn.disconnect();

} catch (Exception e) {

Log.e(TAG, "handleHttpConnection", e);

ActivityHelper.httpError(this);

}

Am I doing something wrong? Because it works perfectly in estimated 9 of 10 attempts.