{"id":92,"date":"2022-11-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2022-11-21T18:56:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T02:56:02","slug":"simons-automatic-offline-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dejal.com\/blog\/simons-automatic-offline-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon’s automatic offline support"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A useful feature of Simon<\/a> is how it handles the situation when your computer loses its internet connection.<\/p>\n

People sometimes ask me what Simon does in this situation, concerned that it would count as a failure for tests. Simon is smarter than that, though. Every time it starts a check, it first checks if the computer has a current internet connection, and only then performs the check.<\/p>\n

If it determines that your internet connection has been disrupted, it places the test in an \u201coffline\u201d state, where it shows a blinking \u201clightning bolt\u201d for the status icon until the connection is restored. This offline state doesn\u2019t count as a failure (or success).<\/p>\n

Simon works out if you have a connection by seeing if it can resolve one of two popular domain names; if either work, your connection is probably fine, but if both fail, it is likely disconnected. Using two domains avoids a temporary outage of either one.<\/p>\n

You can disable this internet connection check on a per-test basis via the Can check when offline<\/strong> checkbox on the test editor\u2019s Options<\/strong> page. This is useful if you want to create a test to notify you when your connection goes down, or for tests that don\u2019t require an internet connection (e.g. using the Application<\/strong> or Script<\/strong> service kinds):<\/p>\n

$\"Offline$ <\/p>\n

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