how to know if I'm on-line or not

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
I'm writing some software to continually test a web site I created. It Posts some data every hour or so and then inspects the HTML that returns to verify that the web site responded appropriately. Sad to say, I connect to the Internet over a modem, so I'm not on-line all of the time. I would

Re: how to know if I'm on-line or not

2005-08-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jon wrote: I'm writing some software to continually test a web site I created. It Posts some data every hour or so and then inspects the HTML that returns to verify that the web site responded appropriately. Sad to say, I connect to the Internet over a modem, so I'm not on-line all of the

Re: how to know if I'm on-line or not

2005-08-19 Thread Jon
I actually started doing just as you suggested (getting Google) when no one else chimed in. Works fine, although I wonder how fond the folks at Google are at us hammering away at them all of the time grin Thanks! Jon J. Landman Gay wrote: Jon wrote: I'm writing some software to

Re: how to know if I'm on-line or not

2005-08-19 Thread Jerry Daniels
Thought I'd chime in here... I found that the Google method of testing an internet connection is somewhat slow and does increase the access numbers to Google thus inflating their stock price (last part was a jest). When I have an application that has data on a website, i put a text file on