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On Friday 12 February 2010 09:44:01 Graham Murray wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> writes: |
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> > so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells a broweser |
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> > or mail app that they are offline? |
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> Why does the app need to know? Browsers normally have an online/offline |
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> menu selection and if you try to browse to a site when your network is |
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> offline then the browser will generate the appropriate error message. In |
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> any case, these notifications are only really of use on a single-homed |
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> non LAN connected system. On an office LAN, you may well be able to |
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> still access your mail server but a problem means that you cannot access |
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> any web sites. |
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A network connection manager tells apps when the machine's interface goes |
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down, not when the gateway is no longer available. |
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You have these two things conflated. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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