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Hey. I'm using the ktor http client and i'm wondering if it can be configured to *not* throw an exception if the request fails with status 40x.
I know about
```HttpClient {
  expectSuccess = false
}```
but if set, the exception just changes from `ClientRequestException` to `IllegalStateException`
Can the throwing of exceptions somehow be prevented completely or do i have to resort to a try/catch block?

i havent found a way either. catching the `ClientRequestException` and checking the response statuscode and then parsing the content to get the error body

We are doing this by requesting HttpResponse as the type, then we make sure the response is in 200 range and parse the content

Although we are not using content negotiation, we are doing serialization on our own