From ff58a86b7fc3d4970bf9bf5b6926a411e22f5caa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: skilion <andrea.9940@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 22:28:00 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] use libcurl to check connection

---
 src/util.d | 11 ++++-------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/util.d b/src/util.d
index 6db7b0b7..b9515905 100644
--- a/src/util.d
+++ b/src/util.d
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import std.conv;
 import std.digest.crc;
 import std.file;
+import std.net.curl;
 import std.path;
 import std.regex;
 import std.socket;
@@ -81,13 +82,9 @@ Regex!char wild2regex(const(char)[] pattern)
 // return true if the network connection is available
 bool testNetwork()
 {
-	try {
-		auto addr = new InternetAddress("login.live.com", 443);
-		auto socket = new TcpSocket(addr);
-		return socket.isAlive();
-	} catch (SocketException) {
-		return false;
-	}
+	HTTP http = HTTP("https://login.live.com");
+	http.method = HTTP.Method.head;
+	return http.perform(ThrowOnError.no) == 0;
 }
 
 // call globMatch for each string in pattern separated by '|'