[Tutor] best way to tell if i am connected to the internet

[shawn bright]

ok, cool.
thanks
sk

On 4/30/07, Jalil <jalilsan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ping a host on the net if you get an echo response back you are good.
> better yet ping the host  page you are scraping.
>
>
> On 4/30/07, shawn bright < nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > hello there all,
> >
> > i am wondering, what would be the simplest way to get a true/false
> > am i connected to the internet ?
> >
> > right now i am using httplib to fetch a webpage every 20 minutes to see,
> > but i am thinking that there is a better way,
> >
> > any suggestions would be encouraging
> >
> > thanks
> > shawn
> >
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