I currently have a solution that works ok right now, but I still keep hoping for a more integrated solution as web-enabled apps become more prominant. With the myriad of different proxy/firewall settings and such, and with the intracacies of various platforms, I can see how a 'silver-bullet' solution may not be forthcoming anytime soon. Just thought I'd check :0)
~Mathew
John Dowdell wrote:
At 8:06 AM 1/9/4, Mathew Ray wrote:
I am curious if the new version of Director has any improvements for internet aware applications. For instance, a better way to see if a user is connected to the web that is more consistent,perhaps being notified when the connection status changes.
Auto-detection of connection is still a hard problem. The team for Macromedia Central did another round of research in this area and still couldn't find a universal handling.
Most techniques I've seen depend on pinging a remote server and testing for a result, but some systems are set up so that any request will try to initiate a connection... others hang for awhile... testing current connectivity is easy in some environments, but counterproductive in others... still a hard problem to solve, sorry.
jd
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