Hi Cyrus,

There has been a similar request for help: Can I truly check for Internet connection? Thread #724735 Message #724735

(Perhaps you already read it.) It does not give a solidproof solution.

In one of my applications I offer a connection to the internet. The user clicks on the button/text and the connection is tried. I don't care about whether or not a connection really exists. If the connection fails, a messagebox might be presented explaining the failure. This might be regarded a suboptimal solution?!


>I have been using the following function (from this beard) to see if the computer is connected to Internet;
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>DECLARE Integer InternetCheckConnection IN WININET.DLL;
> String Url, Long dwFlags, Long Reserved
>IF InternetCheckConnection(cURL,1,0) <> 0
> RETURN .F.
>ENDIF
>------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>I have the following two problems with it.
>
>1) On a customer's Win-98 station, the Internet Explorer can easily access the same cURL above, but this function is returing .F. - How could this be?
>
>2) On stations with Dialup connection, this function prompts the Dialup dialog to popup. My intention is just to KNOW whether the conenction exists or not, and not to initiate the connection. Is there another function that would do that ?
>
>Thanks for your help.