How to access HTTP response status code

I know this question has been asked before but I couldn't find an answer 
in the achives. I'm using WebSphere 5.0.1. I'm not sure what version of
SOAP it uses. My question is: how can I get access to the HTTP response 
status code in my proxy?  I checked the javadoc for the Call and 
SOAPHTTPConnection classes but there doesn't appear to be a way. A related 
issue is that for staus code 404 and 401 I get the following response back 
from WebSphere which is not very helpful -  SOAPException: 
faultCode=SOAP-ENV:Protocol; msg=Unsupported response content type 
"text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1", must be: "text/xml". 
Response was:

So to know what is really going on I'd like to capture the HTTP status 
code and display a better error message in my proxy.

Thank you,
Frank Baldiga