Determining Internet Availability on iPhone?

Question

I am using NSURLConnection in an iPhone app as so:

NSURLConnection *conn = [[NSURLConnection alloc] initWithRequest: request delegate: self];

Answer 1

this works for me and is taken from apple seismic xml project:

- (BOOL)isDataSourceAvailable
{
    static BOOL checkNetwork = YES;
    if (checkNetwork) { // Since checking the reachability of a host can be expensive, cache the result and perform the reachability check once.
        checkNetwork = NO;

        Boolean success;    
        const char *host_name = "twitter.com"; // your data source host name

        SCNetworkReachabilityRef reachability = SCNetworkReachabilityCreateWithName(NULL, host_name);
        SCNetworkReachabilityFlags flags;
        success = SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags(reachability, &flags);
        _isDataSourceAvailable = success && (flags & kSCNetworkFlagsReachable) && !(flags & kSCNetworkFlagsConnectionRequired);
        CFRelease(reachability);
    }
    return _isDataSourceAvailable;
}