WHy jump in this code ?

From:
Erik <et57@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 13:43:51 +0100
Message-ID:
<lifrk5th08bb7jthp445l5bkm9kel7r766@4ax.com>
In the following coe, at the indicated line (// <<==) , why would the
the computer jump to "finally" and forget about the following lines ?
Stepping through the code shows that behaviour.
If I take out the "finally" and just "return ret;", it DOES execute
the following lines and it does not jump to any "catch"...

According to the javadoc, PostMethod does not throw any exceptions.
Which sounds weird to me.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*;
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.multipart.*;

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.params.HttpMethodParams;

public class CSSValidator {

    public boolean validateFile( String fn ) {
        
        boolean ret = false;
        try {
            PostMethod method;
            HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
            method = new
PostMethod("http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator"); // <<==

method.setRequestHeader("Accept","text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8");
 method.setRequestHeader("Accept-Language","en-us,en;q=0.5");
            method.setRequestHeader("Accept-Encoding","gzip,deflate");

method.setRequestHeader("Accept-CharSet","ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7");

method.setRequestHeader("Referer","http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/");

method.getParams().setBooleanParameter(HttpMethodParams.USE_EXPECT_CONTINUE,
false);

            Part[] parts = {
                new FilePart("file",new File(fn)),
                new StringPart("usermedium","all"),
                new StringPart("lang","en"),
                new StringPart("profile","css21"),
                new StringPart("warning","1")
            } ;

            method.setRequestEntity(new MultipartRequestEntity(parts,
method.getParams()) );

client.getHttpConnectionManager().getParams().setConnectionTimeout(5000);
            int status = client.executeMethod((HttpMethod) method);

           
            if (status == HttpStatus.SC_OK) {
                System.out.println("OK");
                ret = true;
            } else {
                System.out.println("Not OK");
            }
    }
        catch (HttpException e) {
             System.out.println("ERROR: " + e.getClass().getName() + "
"+ e.getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch (IOException ioe) {
            System.out.println("ERROR: " + ioe.getClass().getName() +
" "+ ioe.getMessage());
            ioe.printStackTrace();
        }
        catch (Exception ex) {
            System.out.println("ERROR: " + ex.getClass().getName() + "
"+ ex.getMessage());
            ex.printStackTrace();
    }
        finally {
    return ret;
        }
    }
}

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