Josh Mellicker wrote:
We were just thinking more on this, and it seems that there are some
corporate networks that allow http:// but not other protocols?
In other words, people can surf websites but not download?
If this is true, rather than using "ping" in the process, we are
thinking it might be better to issue an FTP command to test
downloading of a small test file. If this fails, we would know that
Revolution downloading will not work.
Again, if we can solve this, it means a huge breakthrough for
Revolution- being able to auto-update, for example, without the risk
of hanging.
As Andre said, ping acts differently on each system - to the extent that
my system (Windows Vista Home Premium) gives an error ("Bad option -c")
for your originally suggested command.
You will probably encounter a similar probelm of ftp not being
available, or allowing different options, or allowing/not allowing the
definition of username/password in the command line, or .... with this
idea.
I'd get around that by creating a simple, tiny Rev-based standalone that
does the ftp download of the test file and monitoring its progress in
the other process; then it sounds like a rock-solid idea.
-- Alex.
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