On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Zibiao.Wei_at_atxinc.com wrote:

> Does libcurl have an equivalent of WinINet's InternetCheckConnection
> function?

No. And what is an "internet connection" really?

> Wouldn't it be nice to know that at least the client machine is Internet
> ready before multiple download requests are sent by libcurl? Otherwise later
> the same number of download failures will need to be handled.

Then do a first check by getting something you know "always" exists on some
public server somewhere. Then call that function InternetCheckConnection() and
*bing*, you have it! ;-)

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