Re: How to know connected or not?
- Posted by gertie at ad-tek.net Jun 03, 2001
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On 4 Jun 2001, at 1:38, Gerardo wrote: <snip> > I've also used GO Express Search, a downloadable metacrawler that queries in > the background, so every result you get to view doesn't appear to come from > the Internet but from localhost (port 1234). What?!? You didn't write one in Eu?? > So, how to test whether online or not? Basically I agree with Kat: try > something, then test the results. However, I would take this as conclusive > only if you get a positive. A negative I would interpret only as meaning I > didn't get a result, not that I wasn't online. Too many times I've had my > ISP hang on me for several minutes, then restarting at their discretion. Mine hangs occasionally too. I just set up a loop with some sleep() time, and retry it, like this, which just now happened.... vestrymen 1:26am -- Error downloading file 'timeout in TCP dialog.' -- No reply, retrying... 1:29am -- zakristija | zagrad | kapelica | odbor cerkvene ob_ine | Pupnijski o dbor | skupÜ_ina cerkvenih odbornikov | prostor | dvorana za take skupÜ_ine | za kristija | vestrymen | Not that those are correct, but that's a different topic. Kat