Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-12-02 Thread Peter Brigham
Now I want Rev to have the following options: do as appleScript do as vbScript do as I told you No, sorry Andre. That 3rd option should be "do what I meant", not "do what I told you" :-) Sarah I hate this damn computer -- I wish that I could sell it. It never does what I want it to, Only wh

Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-12-01 Thread Sarah Reichelt
> Now I want Rev to have the following options: > > do as appleScript > do as vbScript > do as I told you No, sorry Andre. That 3rd option should be "do what I meant", not "do what I told you" :-) Sarah ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lis

Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-12-01 Thread Andre Garzia
Mark, you made my day! :-D Now I want Rev to have the following options: do as appleScript do as vbScript do as I told you :-D On 12/1/07, Mark Wieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric- > > Friday, November 30, 2007, 10:07:00 AM, you wrote: > > > This has been discussed many times on this list

Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-12-01 Thread Mark Wieder
Eric- Friday, November 30, 2007, 10:07:00 AM, you wrote: > This has been discussed many times on this list: check the archives > and you'll find many posts with many solutions depending on possible > firewalls and many other things. But my favorite is answer "Are you connected to the internet?"

Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-12-01 Thread Andre Garzia
Aloha Folks, I use the following approach. I open a socket to my server, if it opens, I request an HTTP HEAD from it and inspect the result. all I need is to have a clear path to my server. Many general purpose solutions that rely on DNS or Broadcast packets may fail if the user has a home netwo

Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-11-30 Thread Sivakatirswami
Dave wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to test if the machine you are running on currently connected to the Internet? Thanks a lot All the Best Dave I use a "baby face" method where the goal is to be sure they are talking to our own servers put a file your web site: ping.txt put the word "tr

Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-11-30 Thread Eric Chatonet
Hi Dave, This has been discussed many times on this list: check the archives and you'll find many posts with many solutions depending on possible firewalls and many other things. As for me I use the following script that feeds a Boolean global var allowing to know if the connection is runni

Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-11-30 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Dave, This question comes up from time to time. You can see what's been said before by looking at this (but watch line wrap): http://search.gmane.org/?query=connected+to+internet&group=gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user Thanks - Phil Davis Dave wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to test if the

Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-11-30 Thread Scott Rossi
> Is there a way to test if the machine you are running on currently > connected to the Internet? As suggested, grabbing the HTML (put URL...) from a large, well known site is one way. But if the goal is to have your stack interact with your own site, it would be better to test that site since be

Re: Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-11-30 Thread Len Morgan
I would think you could ping some site you know is always going to be there (ie., CNN, Google, etc). Make sure the site actually will respond to a ping first though! Len Morgan Dave wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to test if the machine you are running on currently connected to the Internet?

Testing if there is an Internet Connection

2007-11-30 Thread Dave
Hi all, Is there a way to test if the machine you are running on currently connected to the Internet? Thanks a lot All the Best Dave ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and