Checking Internet connection on Vista

[Eric Chatonet]

Your allusion about SocketTimeoutInterval seems to be very well  
thought :-)
The problem is that I (the user) can't accept more than a 200 ms hang  
and this could be not enough when he is regularly connected.
So this fails to address the problem :-(

Le 20 juin 08 à 16:44, Bernard Devlin a écrit :

> Happy to help if I can.  I have a Netgear router here, but for my  
> test I
> just switched off the wireless adaptor on my laptop to break the  
> network
> connection.  So, this time I switched off the router.  Now I get a  
> 14 second
> delay before rev times out.  When I ran nslookup.exe on Windows in  
> this
> situation, it only takes 2 seconds to report it can't resolve the  
> address.
> Perhaps you might have to use shell() to call nslookup.exe and  
> check what
> that returns.  Also, since it doesn't look like Rev is making the  
> same call
> that nslookup.exe makes, maybe it is connected to the  
> SocketTimeoutInterval
> which defaults to 10 seconds?
>
> Bernard
>
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Eric Chatonet <
> eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>> Bonjour Bernard,
>>
>> Thanks for your quick test :-)
>>
>> But may be I was not specific enough:
>> Here I have a Netgear router that allows me to share Internet  
>> connection
>> between several hard wired computers.
>> Probably it has something to do with this...
>> On the other hand I use the same Home Premium Vista version than you.
>>
>> Internet check is always something tricky because of firewalls,  
>> routers,
>> etc.
>> Well: why Rev that provides revBrowser does not provide a built-in
>> function?
>> :-(

Best regards from Paris,
Eric Chatonet.
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