How often should I check for internet connection?

[mschwade]

I have an application that I am finishing up that uses a UIWebView... How often should I check for the internet connection? Should that be done at time intervals or should that be done before any new page is requested? What if you check for the connection and it says yes, but a split second later you don't have it but you already sent the URL request? How have you guys handled this such issue?

Thanks in advance!
Matt

[mschwade]

Originally Posted by mschwade

I have an application that I am finishing up that uses a UIWebView... How often should I check for the internet connection? Should that be done at time intervals or should that be done before any new page is requested? What if you check for the connection and it says yes, but a split second later you don't have it but you already sent the URL request? How have you guys handled this such issue?

Thanks in advance!
Matt

Does anyone have suggestions, input?

[msencenb]

Generally I would check for an internet connection just at the beginning.... Then when trying to load a url perhaps you could set a timeout value. So if it goes for a set amount of time without loading it alerts the user that perhaps their internet connection isn't good enough or is gone.