ping a host on the net if you get an echo response back you are good. better yet ping the host page you are scraping.
On 4/30/07, shawn bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hello there all, i am wondering, what would be the simplest way to get a true/false am i connected to the internet ? right now i am using httplib to fetch a webpage every 20 minutes to see, but i am thinking that there is a better way, any suggestions would be encouraging thanks shawn _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
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