Aaron,
On Windows, what about the InternetGetConnectedState function of
wininet? It's not also accurate?
(MSDN: http://tinyurl.com/28kr )
Carlos
> Aaron Ballman:
>
> Because there's absolutely NO perfect solution for checking
> internet
> connectivity. The operating system will let you know rudimentary
> information such as whether you're "connected" to a network
> (and they
> don't promise that it's 100% accurate either, I might add)
> or whether
> you've got a dial-up connection. That's it. Nothing more.
>
> And I disagree, web browsers do not check whether they're
> connected to
> the internet. They do tricks just like we do (using the
> same OS APIs I
> would hazard to guess) to see whether there might be a path to the
> internet. But I've never once seen a browser tell me "you're not
> connected to the internet" when I'm strictly on a LAN with
> no internet
> access. They check whether a dial-up will be forced, if not they
> attempt to connect, and they timeout.
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