On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Logan Kelly wrote:
 Is there a way to test for an active data connection before 
 calling readfile() or curl()? 
This is a gretl-devel question, but anyway: No, though maybe we 
should experiment with the various "timeout" options in libcurl so 
we don't block endlessly on a call via the curl API.
Allin Cottrell