On 12/14, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
> Hi Dimitris,
> 
> > On 14 Dec 2015, at 07:02, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.al...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Hey guys I try to make a way to detect whether my project is up to date and 
> > if not to update it from the github repo automagically. This part works 
> > fine , but I will also like to first detect whether the computer has an 
> > internet connection so to avoid unnecessary errors and checks .
> > 
> > Is that possible ?  
> 
> Just try accessing a well know, always available host with a short timeout ?
> 
> [ ZnClient new beOneShot; timeout: 2; get: 'http://www.google.com'; isSuccess 
> ] on: Error do: [ false ]
> 

You should try to contact github, not google, since that's what you care
about. After all github can be down sometimes so it would fail even with
internet connection.

Peter

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