checking for Internet connection

[Richard Gaskin]

How do you tell if an Internet connection is availble without typing up the
user's machine?

I had thought I might just set the socketTimeoutInterval to something like
10 seconds and then just try to get a URL, but no matter what I set the
socketTimeoutInterval to, when there's no Internet connection it takes about
two minutes for urlLib to report an error.

Any suggestions?
 
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 Richard Gaskin 
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