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

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