checking for Internet connection

[andu]

--On Saturday, September 28, 2002 11:19:09 -0700 Richard Gaskin 
<ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

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

On Mac classic if you do [put hostnametoaddress("localhost"]) with no 
internet connection you get an error regarding internet services (DNS). 
With internet connection active you get a "invalid host address" error for 
localhost (and any name which is not resolved). I assume this is multi 
platform so you can use the former for your purposes.

>
> 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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Regards, Andu Novac