Use the source, Luke: ZnClient>>#timeout: seconds "Set the timeout for network socket stream operations like connecting, reading and writing to seconds." self optionAt: #timeout put: seconds ;-)
On 14 Dec 2015, at 10:31, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you both, an exception handling is what i was considering too but I thought a second opinion would not hurt. And yes I agree I need to check that github is online or that the user can access it.
By the way that timeout argument is in milliseconds ?
On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 9:53 AM Peter Uhnak <i.uhnak@gmail.com> wrote: On 12/14, Sven Van Caekenberghe wrote:
Hi Dimitris,
On 14 Dec 2015, at 07:02, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey guys I try to make a way to detect whether my project is up to date and if not to update it from the github repo automagically. This part works fine , but I will also like to first detect whether the computer has an internet connection so to avoid unnecessary errors and checks .
Is that possible ?
Just try accessing a well know, always available host with a short timeout ?
[ ZnClient new beOneShot; timeout: 2; get: 'http://www.google.com'; isSuccess ] on: Error do: [ false ]
You should try to contact github, not google, since that's what you care about. After all github can be down sometimes so it would fail even with internet connection.
Peter