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

[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 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.
>
>