Here is the code I am using to check the internet connection. But it always fails. This runs fine with my admin user but not working for standard (non-privilege) user I made. What could be missing here..
if (!App.IsInternetConnected)
{
await Task.Factory.StartNew(() =>
{
App.IsInternetConnected = Utils.IsInternetConnected();
});
}
if (!App.IsInternetConnected)
{
App.ShowMessage("FeatureNotAvailable");
LoginProgress.Visibility = System.Windows.Visibility.Hidden;
return;
}
IsInternetConnected method is as below.
internal static bool IsInternetConnected()
{
try
{
WebClient webclient = new WebClientPool().GetIdleWebClientObject();
try
{
webclient.DownloadString("http://www.google.com");
return true;
}
}
catch (Exception)
{
return false;
}
}
GetIdleWebClientObject is as below.
[MethodImpl(MethodImplOptions.Synchronized)]
public WebClient GetIdleWebClientObject()
{
foreach (WebClient item in WebClientItems)
{
if (!item.IsBusy )
{
Log.Instance.WriteLine("reused webclient");
item.Headers.Clear();
return item;
}
}
Log.Instance.WriteLine("new webclient");
WebClient NewItem = new WebClient();
NewItem.UseDefaultCredentials = true;
//NewItem.Credentials = CredentialCache.DefaultNetworkCredentials;
NewItem.Proxy = WebRequest.GetSystemWebProxy();
WebClientItems.Add(NewItem);
return NewItem;
}
My issue was bit out of way but may help anyone.
It was in line this Log.Instance.WriteLine("new webclient");
This line was creating and writing log file in C:\
drive. Which was not allowed to standard user and throwing exception.
which lead me to show no internet error which was not actually related.