So, the biggest problem has to do with network timeouts. I guess in these 
situations, SCNR would report connectivity, but it would ultimately fail, 
resulting in the same behavior, correct? So there should be no problem with 
going ahead.


> On Jun 8, 2015, at 16:01 , Joshua Graessley <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> SCNetworkReachability may return reachable in situations where the connection 
> will not succeed. Your preflight check does not solve the problem.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Jun 8, 2015, at 3:56 PM, Rick Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I thought I'd seen advice from Apple engineers (Quinn?) that instead of 
>> first checking SCNetworkReachability, we should just try to make the actual 
>> connection, and then take action (e.g. alert the user) only if that fails.
>> 
>> But of course, if there's going to be a long timeout, I don't want to make 
>> the user wait that long.
>> 
>> In my app, there are many moving parts. Background processes try to make 
>> network connections (that should not necessarily complain if they fail), 
>> sometimes the user initiates network connections...it's challenging to get 
>> it all correct.
>> 
>> What was the specific advice regarding checking SCNR vs. just trying to 
>> connect?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> -- 
>> Rick Mann
>> [email protected]
>> 
>> 
>> 
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