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spedinfargo · 07-25-2011, 02:00 PM

Once in a while my Internet connection for my Calibre machine is completely down. When this happens, all of my resulting Epub files are essentially empty - each feed has this error:

urlopen error [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed

Since I usually keep only one copy of each recipe, when my internet connection comes back up and syncs my calibre folder with Dropbox, I end up with a bunch of bad files.

Does anyone else think that having Calibre try to detect a valid internet connection before starting a job would be useful? Maybe I'll get my source code set up and try writing another patch...

07-25-2011, 02:00 PM	#1
spedinfargo Groupie Posts: 155 Karma: 106422 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: none	Feature Request: Detect internet connection before trying to download a recipe? Once in a while my Internet connection for my Calibre machine is completely down. When this happens, all of my resulting Epub files are essentially empty - each feed has this error: urlopen error [Errno 11004] getaddrinfo failed Since I usually keep only one copy of each recipe, when my internet connection comes back up and syncs my calibre folder with Dropbox, I end up with a bunch of bad files. Does anyone else think that having Calibre try to detect a valid internet connection before starting a job would be useful? Maybe I'll get my source code set up and try writing another patch...