diff --git a/cocos/network/HttpAsynConnection.h b/cocos/network/HttpAsynConnection.h
index 1ebcae9ffb..21e7f5cd1e 100644
--- a/cocos/network/HttpAsynConnection.h
+++ b/cocos/network/HttpAsynConnection.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 @property (readonly) NSString *statusString;
 
 @property (strong) NSError *responseError;
+@property (strong) NSError *connError;
 
 @property (strong) NSURLConnection *conn;
 
diff --git a/cocos/network/HttpAsynConnection.m b/cocos/network/HttpAsynConnection.m
index 1be9ff2fdd..a9177d7805 100755
--- a/cocos/network/HttpAsynConnection.m
+++ b/cocos/network/HttpAsynConnection.m
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 @synthesize responseCode;
 @synthesize statusString;
 @synthesize responseError;
+@synthesize connError;
 @synthesize conn;
 @synthesize finish;
 @synthesize runLoop;
@@ -65,7 +66,9 @@
 
     self.responseData = [NSMutableData data];
     getDataTime = 0;
+
     self.responseError = nil;
+    self.connError = nil;
     
     // create the connection with the target request and this class as the delegate
     self.conn = [[[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest:request
@@ -109,10 +112,9 @@
     */
     if (responseCode < 200 || responseCode >= 300)
     {// something went wrong, abort the whole thing
-        
-        [connection cancel];
-        finish = true;
-        return;
+        self.responseError = [NSError errorWithDomain:@"CCBackendDomain"
+                                            code:responseCode
+                                        userInfo:@{NSLocalizedDescriptionKey: @"Bad HTTP Response Code"}];        
     }
     
     [responseData setLength:0];
@@ -138,7 +140,7 @@
   didFailWithError:(NSError *)error
 {
     //NSLog(@"Load failed with error %@", [error localizedDescription]);
-    self.responseError = error;
+    self.connError = error;
     
     finish = true;
 }
diff --git a/cocos/network/HttpClient-apple.mm b/cocos/network/HttpClient-apple.mm
index 883bb85a3d..34c9f64d0e 100644
--- a/cocos/network/HttpClient-apple.mm
+++ b/cocos/network/HttpClient-apple.mm
@@ -242,11 +242,18 @@ static int processTask(HttpRequest *request, NSString* requestType, void *stream
     }
     
     //if http connection return error
+    if (httpAsynConn.connError != nil)
+    {
+        NSString* errorString = [httpAsynConn.connError localizedDescription];
+        strcpy(errorBuffer, [errorString UTF8String]);
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    //if http response got error, just log the error
     if (httpAsynConn.responseError != nil)
     {
         NSString* errorString = [httpAsynConn.responseError localizedDescription];
         strcpy(errorBuffer, [errorString UTF8String]);
-        return 0;
     }
     
     *responseCode = httpAsynConn.responseCode;
diff --git a/cocos/platform/android/java/src/org/cocos2dx/lib/Cocos2dxHttpURLConnection.java b/cocos/platform/android/java/src/org/cocos2dx/lib/Cocos2dxHttpURLConnection.java
index 53b25e6100..c0d9c5f7c4 100644
--- a/cocos/platform/android/java/src/org/cocos2dx/lib/Cocos2dxHttpURLConnection.java
+++ b/cocos/platform/android/java/src/org/cocos2dx/lib/Cocos2dxHttpURLConnection.java
@@ -260,8 +260,17 @@ public class Cocos2dxHttpURLConnection
     }
 
     static byte[] getResponseContent(HttpURLConnection http) {
-    	try {
-            DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(http.getInputStream());
+        DataInputStream in;
+        try {
+            in = new DataInputStream(http.getInputStream());
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            in = new DataInputStream(http.getErrorStream());
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            Log.e("Cocos2dxHttpURLConnection exception", e.toString());
+            return null;
+        }
+
+        try {
             byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
             int size   = 0;
             ByteArrayOutputStream bytestream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
@@ -272,12 +281,13 @@ public class Cocos2dxHttpURLConnection
             byte retbuffer[] = bytestream.toByteArray();
             bytestream.close();
             return retbuffer;
-		} catch (Exception e) {
-			Log.e("Cocos2dxHttpURLConnection exception", e.toString());
-		}
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            Log.e("Cocos2dxHttpURLConnection exception", e.toString());
+        }
+
         return null;
     }
-
+    
     static int getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection http) {
         int code = 0;
         try {