Day 11/100 100 days of Code

Today I worked on implementing a function that ensures that the computer has access to the internet before starting any scraping operations.

I used a system ping command to ping google.com. If the ping fails, then the computer has no internet access. Here is the function I created:

bool Scraper::CheckForConnection()
{
    std::string createCommand = "ping www.google.com -c1";
    int getVal = std::system(createCommand.c_str());

    if (getVal != 0)
    {
        return false;
    }

    return true;
}