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

[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 time.  I would like to have some logic like this, so that I 
> don't report an error when I'm not even on-line:
> 
> if modem-is-connected then
>   test the web site
> end if
> 
> Is there any way to do this in Rev?

One common technique is to "get" the url at google.com, or one at 
yahoo.com, or a small file you know is on your server. Then check the 
result to see if anything went wrong. If it didn't, assume a connection.


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