Isn't it an idea to use the xmlhttprequest object to query an url like google.com or something and then catch an open() failure? If you get a http 200 status code, there's definitely an Iternet connection... Kim >The only thing I can think of that does this is Yahoo Messenger. Quite >whether you can hack it for your own use is another matter ! > >Tim in Ireland. > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tim Burgan" <email at timburgan.com> >To: "[JavaScript List]" <javascript at LaTech.edu> >Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:46 AM >Subject: Re: [Javascript] Detect internet connection > > > > >>Rod Coate wrote: >> >> >> >>>I.E. Can you tell if a client machine has a connection to the internet. >>> >>> >>That's the one! >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Javascript mailing list >>Javascript at LaTech.edu >>https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript >> >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >Javascript mailing list >Javascript at LaTech.edu >https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/javascript/attachments/20050216/2d271590/attachment.htm>