Re: Checking availability of host/website
On Jun 28, 2008, at 12:36 AM, Michael Kaye wrote: I have implemented an SCNetworkReachAbility based method to test firstly whether a network is available, but I was wondering in your opinion what is the best way to check that the remote host/website is responding to requests? It depends on what your definition of availability is. If you want to ping the server you can wrap a ping command through NSTask. If you want to check if it responds to connections, NSURLConnection is for you. If you want to check if the system is connected to the internet you would use the api for that. You probably just want to open an NSURLConnection and see if it doesn't accept the connection within a second or whatever. Omar Qazi Hello, Galaxy! 1.310.294.1593 smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Checking availability of host/website
Hi all, Another newbie here so be gentle... I have a small app that needs to send a number of requests to a remote server. I have implemented an SCNetworkReachAbility based method to test firstly whether a network is available, but I was wondering in your opinion what is the best way to check that the remote host/website is responding to requests? Obviously I want any check to be an quick as possible as I don't want the user to be sitting waiting on a time out etc. I can think of a number of ways to do this ; ping (but I've no idea how to do this); creating a connection using NSConnection or NSURL etc. Can anyone offer any advice/suggestions for the most sensible way to achieve this? Thanks in advance, Michael. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
