Error from webwrite on 201 response from server.

I am using webwrite to make a post request. I can that the request is getting to the server and that the data is being sent. The server response with a 201 (Created) response. This appears to cause matlab to throw an error.

The call looks like

    webwrite('http://localhost:9999/register', registerData, weboptions('MediaType', 'application/json'));

registerData is a struct.

Is there a way to tell matlab that 201 is a successful/expected response? Do I need to make the server respond with 200 (Ok) instead, even though 201 is a more accurate response?

The error message and stack trace is

Error using readContentFromWebService (line 37)
The server returned the message: "Created" for URL,
'http://localhost:9999/registerdbstack' (with HTTP response code 201).

Error in webwrite (line 126)
[varargout{1:nargout}] = readContentFromWebService(connection, options);

 K>> dbstack
 > In matlab.internal.webservices.HTTPConnector/copyContentToByteArray (line 235)
   In readContentFromWebService (line 37)
   In webwrite (line 126)
   In myCode (line 83)

I am using Matlab 2015a (8.5.0.197613) on a 64-bit Mac.

Edit: add stack traces and version information

[Morrie Gasser]

It throws an exception for response codes other than 200 so that you can find out what the server's response code was. The operation was still successful despite the "Error". If you want to ignore this case you can wrap the webwrite call in a try-catch.

[Troy Daniels]

It looks like I should check that ex.identifier is 'MATLAB:webservices:HTTP201StatusCodeError'. Is there any way to actually get the response from the web server? In my case, the response contains an identifier for the object that was created on the server.

[Troy Daniels]

It appears that matlab has a bug in webwrite, where if the server returns a success code 2xx that is not 200, it is not possible to get the content returned by the web server.

[Morrie Gasser]

FWIW, this was fixed in R2015b. Any 2xx response code is considered success.