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Re: Detecting if connected to internet


  • Subject: Re: Detecting if connected to internet
  • From: Michelle Steiner <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 16:34:19 -0700


On May 23, 2008, at 10:36 AM, Dan Doughtie wrote:

But sometimes they work off line. I want to add a line that would check to see if they were on the internet and if so, then send the backup, else, not. 

Any suggested approaches? Ping something and if it fails then assume you’re offline? Is there an OS status that would indicate this?

The Network Configuration Suite of System Events might help:

configuration n [inh. item] : A collection of settings for configuring a connection
elements
contained by services.
elements inherited from item
contained by aliases, disks, file packages, folders, application.
properties
account name (text) : the name used to authenticate
connected (boolean, r/o) : Is the configuration connected?
id (text, r/o) : the unique identifier for the configuration
name (text) : the name of the configuration

-- Michelle

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