Just out of curiosity, what exactly are you looking to do that you don't want to make a connection attempt? Also, are you more concerned about trying to transmit at all, or rather the overhead of a tcp connection?
The idea is to find out whether a network connection would work without actually doing it. (If it could be made to work, which it can't,) this would be a good feature to add to any network client program. For example, it would be nice to know that the system is all set and ready to go to use, say, a phone dialup, but you don't want to take the time to make a call at this point in the process. However, if you if you knew it would fail, tell the user before they do a bunch of stuff. Craig _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
