InternetCheckConnection

[bennyandthejets]

This is the code I'm using for checking my internet connection:

if (!InternetCheckConnection( "http://www.google.com" , FLAG_ICC_FORCE_CONNECTION , NULL ) )

It is the only combination of parameters that works, ie, I have to give a valid URL, and I have to use the flag. Is it supposed to be like that? For compatibility, I wouldn't want to have to assume that I was specifying a valid URL. I know it's pedantic, but is there any way to avoid specifying a URL?

[Devil Panther]

sure!

you can read a little about the function and see that if a url is non-null, the function pings the given url!

but you can set the url to NULL, and allow it to find it's own valid url to ping to.

If lpszUrl is NULL and there is an entry in WinInet's internal server database for the nearest sever, the host value is extracted from the entry and used to ping that server

but tell me, when was the last time google had been unavailable?

[bennyandthejets]

The function was never successful if I didn't specify a URL to use.

I know google will be around for a long time, but still, just in case...