101 status code on simple query

Hello everyone.

I'm learning how to use the API right now and I ran into a problem. My code looks like this so far:

String gbURL = "http://www.giantbomb.com/api/search/?api_key=THIS-IS-WHERE-MY-API-KEY-IS&format=json&query='sonic'&resources=game";

HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null; URL url = new URL(gbURL); 
urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); 
urlConnection.setRequestMethod("GET"); 
urlConnection.connect(); 

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(url.openStream())); 
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(); 
String line; 
while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) 
{ 
sb.append(line + "\n"); 
} 
br.close(); 
String jsonString = sb.toString(); 
System.out.println("JSON: " + jsonString);






However, as a result, I always get the 101 status code. As far as I know this means "object not found". But there should definitely be results for "sonic", right?

Have you tried fetching the HTTPS endpoint? GB redirects all http:// requests to the equivalent https:// URL and HttpURLConnection may not be following those automatically. Also, you can probably leave out the quotes around 'sonic'.