easiest thing is to ping your own server. Try to load a simple text file from your server, if it doesn't load, then, you're not connected. For all that matters, this is a good test and easy to implement.
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Josh Mellicker <[email protected]> wrote: > I just thought I'd ask the many networking gurus here: > > It seems easy with Revolution to check if connected to the internet, if not > connected, after a timeOutInterval, an error is returned and it can be dealt > with, no problem. > > However... > > Here at our office, we got Time Warner cable internet a few months ago, and > while it is speedy (20 mbits d/l!) every few weeks we encounter a strange > and perhaps rare situation where: > > 1. we are connected to our ISP > > 2. but our ISP is not connected to the internet > > > On OS X, network diagnostics show: > > Ethernet = green > Network Settings = green > ISP = green > Internet = red > Server = red > > When we encounter this "false connection" condition, a browser, rather than > saying "cannot get web page because we're offline" will hang forever. > > > The danger here that we should all be aware of, is that if you sell an app > that, for example, checks for updates upon launch, if your customer has this > weird connectivity situation, your app will freeze and the customer is > unable to get past this and use the app they legitimately paid you for. > > Even if the connectivity problem is rare, this is a situation we want to > avoid at any cost, so we have no automatic connection routines. If they > initiate a network operation, and the app hangs, they can force quit and > launch again, and not do that anymore now that they know better :-) > > > So, I wondered if any of you had any experience, workarounds or ideas for > detecting this "false connection" condition. > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
