Such a mess

public static IMessage sendFileURL(String message, String imageURL, IChannel channel, boolean loadMessage) {
        IMessage toDelete = null;
        if (loadMessage) {
            toDelete = sendMessage("`Loading...`", channel).get();
        }
        IMessage sentMessage = null;

        HttpURLConnection connection = null;
        try {
            connection = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(imageURL).openConnection();
            connection.setRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) " + "AppleWebKit/537.31 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/26.0.1410.65 Safari/537.31");
            //setup for the stream

            InputStream stream = connection.getInputStream();
            sentMessage = XRequestBuffer.request(() -> {
                try {
                    //set up the file name
                    URL url = new URL(imageURL);
                    String filename = FilenameUtils.getName(url.getPath());
                    if (filename.equalsIgnoreCase("giphy.gif")) {
                        return sendMessage(message + " " + imageURL, channel).get();
                    }
                    //checks if url is valid
                    if (!isImageLink(filename)) {
                        return sendMessage(message + " " + imageURL, channel).get();
                    }
                    //sends message/files
                    if (StringUtils.containsOnly(message, "\n") || (message == null) || message.equals("") && imageURL != null) {
                        return channel.sendFile("", stream, filename);
                    } else if (message != null && !message.isEmpty() && imageURL != null) {
                        return channel.sendFile(removeMentions(message), false, stream, filename);
                    } else {
                        logger.debug("Error sending File to channel with id: " + channel.getLongID() + " on guild with id: " + channel.getGuild().getLongID() +
                                ".\n" + Constants.PREFIX_EDT_LOGGER_INDENT + "Reason: No file to send");
                        return null;
                    }
                } catch (DiscordException e) {
                    if (e.getMessage().contains("CloudFlare")) {
                        return sendFileURL(message, imageURL, channel, false);
                    } else {
                        sendStack(e);
                        return null;
                    }
                } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
                    return sendMessage(message + " " + imageURL, channel).get();
                } catch (MissingPermissionsException e) {
                    logger.debug("Error sending File to channel with id: " + channel.getLongID() + " on guild with id: " + channel.getGuild().getLongID() +
                            ".\n" + Constants.PREFIX_EDT_LOGGER_INDENT + "Reason: Missing permissions.");
                    return sendMessage(message + " <" + imageURL + ">", channel).get();
                }
            }).get();
            stream.close();
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            sendStack(e);
        } catch (SSLHandshakeException e) {
            sendMessage("> Could not get image from website, invalid SSL certificate.", channel);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            try {
                if (connection != null) {
                    int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
                    sendMessage(message + " " + imageURL + " `FAILED TO EMBED - ERROR:" + responseCode + "`", channel).get();
                } else {
                    Utility.sendStack(e);
                }
            } catch (IOException e1) {
                e1.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
        if (loadMessage && toDelete != null) {
            deleteMessage(toDelete);
        }
        return sentMessage;
    }