android - java.io.IOException: Received authentication challenge is null in ICS 4.0.3

I'm trying to logoff from the server. But it returns "0" response code with this exception. I'm using GET verb to do this.

LogCat

10-17 14:54:13.261: W/System.err(868): java.io.IOException: Received authentication challenge is null
10-17 14:54:13.284: W/System.err(868):  at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.processAuthHeader(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:397)
10-17 14:54:13.284: W/System.err(868):  at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.processResponseHeaders(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:345)
10-17 14:54:13.304: W/System.err(868):  at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponse(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:276)

10-17 14:54:13.324: W/System.err(868):  at libcore.net.http.HttpURLConnectionImpl.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnectionImpl.java:479)
10-17 14:54:13.324: W/System.err(868):  at com.remote.synchronizer.haris.CustomHttpClient.executeGet(CustomHttpClient.java:131)
10-17 14:54:13.354: W/System.err(868):  at com.remote.synchronizer.haris.OptionsActivity$1$3$1.run(OptionsActivity.java:87)
10-17 14:54:13.364: W/System.err(868):  at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:605)
10-17 14:54:13.384: W/System.err(868):  at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
10-17 14:54:13.384: W/System.err(868):  at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:137)
10-17 14:54:13.404: W/System.err(868):  at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4424)
10-17 14:54:13.424: W/System.err(868):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
10-17 14:54:13.424: W/System.err(868):  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:511)
10-17 14:54:13.454: W/System.err(868):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:784)

10-17 14:54:13.474: W/System.err(868):  at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:551)
10-17 14:54:13.474: W/System.err(868):  at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
10-17 14:54:13.484: E/HTTP Response(868): java.io.IOException: Received authentication challenge is null

CustomHttpClient.java

public class CustomHttpClient {

    static HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();

    static HttpURLConnection connection = null; 

    public static int executePost(String url, String postParameters)
    {
        int response=0;

        OutputStream output = null;
        try
        {
            connection = (HttpURLConnection)new URL(url).openConnection();

            System.setProperty("http.keepAlive", "false");
            connection.setDoOutput(true);
            connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
            connection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Charset", "UTF-8");
            connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=UTF-8");

            connection.connect();

            output = connection.getOutputStream();
            output.write(postParameters.getBytes("UTF-8"));


            response=connection.getResponseCode();
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            Log.e("HTTP Response", e.toString());
        }
        finally {
            if(connection != null) {

                //  connection.disconnect(); 
                if (output != null) 
                    try { output.close(); } 
                catch (IOException logOrIgnore) {}
            }
        }

        return response;
    }


    public static int executeGet(String url)
    {
        int response=0;

        //HttpURLConnection connection = null;
        try
        {
            connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection();
            System.setProperty("http.keepAlive", "false");
            //connection.setRequestProperty("Accept-Charset", "UTF-8");

            connection.setDoInput(true);
            connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
            connection.connect();
            response=connection.getResponseCode();
        } 
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
            Log.e("HTTP Response", e.toString());
        }

        finally {
            if(connection != null) {
                //  connection.disconnect();
            }
        }
        return response;
    }

}

Before this I'm using DefaultHTTPClient in Gingerbird 2.3 its working perfectly but in ICS DefaultHTTPClient is not working so I need to use HttpURLConnection. POST verb is working fine.