RESTful web service unavailable

hi!

Currently the application server where I have a web service is down and I am doing exception/error handling. How do I get the HTTP_STATUS?
http://wiki.servoy.com/display/public/DOCS/HTTP_STATUS

Here is my code.

function sendRequestToService(event, content) {
	var responseBody = null
	var url = "http://xxx.xxx.x.xxx:8080/servoy-service/rest_ws/backuprestore_ws/ws_backuprestore"
	var client = plugins.http.createNewHttpClient();
	//Create a new request of specified type.
	var request = client.createPostRequest(url);
	request.setBodyContent(content)
	var response = request.executeRequest()
return response 
}

I am only getting the request.executeRequest() as null.

Thanks!

do you have an exception in the log ?