asserts not matching the returned codes

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I have a class with 19 tests.
13 are working fine.
6 are failing.

in all the 6 failing cases I am asserting against the returned code and still the test fails.

so here is the code:

@HttpTest(
        method = Method.POST,
        path = "*******",
        content = content,
        order = 200
)
public void testRegistrationUser1()
{
    assertCreated(response);
}

^^^THIS WORKS FINE.

after that I have another test:

@httptest(
method = Method.POST,
path = "++++++",
content = content,
order = 210
)
public void testRegistrationUser1Again()
{
assertConflict(response);

}

this time the test fails.
the result code is a 409 (conflict) but execution never actually gets to the result where it can make the assert (I can tell this because I am debugging and it never stops in the assertConflict()).

the result code is still a 409 but it doesn't seem to go through the normal flow of the test.

all these tests run against an application in a jetty server.
there is a sort of proxy that is between the test and the jetty application.
this proxy grabs the incoming request from the test and turns the url into a java.net.url and then calls that.

below is the stack trace I see in the failing test (this is the stack of the test itself, not the server):

com.github.kevinsawicki.http.HttpRequest$HttpRequestException: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 409 for URL: http://localhost:8080/++++++
at com.github.kevinsawicki.http.HttpRequest.stream(HttpRequest.java:1659)
at com.github.kevinsawicki.http.HttpRequest.buffer(HttpRequest.java:1636)
at com.github.kevinsawicki.http.HttpRequest.body(HttpRequest.java:1584)
at com.github.kevinsawicki.http.HttpRequest.body(HttpRequest.java:1599)
at com.eclipsesource.restfuse.internal.ResponseImpl.(ResponseImpl.java:30)
at com.eclipsesource.restfuse.internal.InternalRequest.post(InternalRequest.java:78)
at com.eclipsesource.restfuse.internal.HttpTestStatement.callService(HttpTestStatement.java:119)
at com.eclipsesource.restfuse.internal.HttpTestStatement.sendRequest(HttpTestStatement.java:105)
at com.eclipsesource.restfuse.internal.BasicStatement.evaluate(BasicStatement.java:30)
at com.eclipsesource.restfuse.internal.HttpTestStatement.doEvaluate(HttpTestStatement.java:84)
at com.eclipsesource.restfuse.internal.HttpTestStatement.evaluate(HttpTestStatement.java:64)
at org.junit.rules.RunRules.evaluate(RunRules.java:20)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:271)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:70)
at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)
at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)
at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:160)
at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:63)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 409 for URL: http://localhost:8080/++++++
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:27)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:513)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection$6.run(HttpURLConnection.java:1491)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getChainedException(HttpURLConnection.java:1485)
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1139)
at com.github.kevinsawicki.http.HttpRequest.stream(HttpRequest.java:1657)
... 24 more
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 409 for URL: http://localhost:8080/++++++
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1436)
at java.net.HttpURLConnection.getResponseCode(HttpURLConnection.java:379)
at com.github.kevinsawicki.http.HttpRequest.code(HttpRequest.java:1390)
at com.eclipsesource.restfuse.internal.InternalRequest.sendRequest(InternalRequest.java:149)
at com.eclipsesource.restfuse.internal.InternalRequest.post(InternalRequest.java:77)
... 19 more