diff --git a/other/java/client/src/main/java/seaweedfs/client/SeaweedWrite.java b/other/java/client/src/main/java/seaweedfs/client/SeaweedWrite.java
index 1ee745ed0..df45dd3f2 100644
--- a/other/java/client/src/main/java/seaweedfs/client/SeaweedWrite.java
+++ b/other/java/client/src/main/java/seaweedfs/client/SeaweedWrite.java
@@ -149,6 +149,13 @@ public class SeaweedWrite {
         CloseableHttpResponse response = SeaweedUtil.getClosableHttpClient().execute(post);
 
         try {
+            if (response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() / 100 != 2) {
+                if (response.getEntity().getContentType() != null && response.getEntity().getContentType().getValue().equals("application/json")) {
+                    throw new IOException(EntityUtils.toString(response.getEntity(), "UTF-8"));
+                } else {
+                    throw new IOException(response.getStatusLine().getReasonPhrase());
+                }
+            }
 
             String etag = response.getLastHeader("ETag").getValue();