From d0061bb0ef949b6a726cce4931c02646f5f895ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jens Lody <jens@jenslody.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 06:50:23 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Better connectivity check (hopefully).

---
 src/extension.js | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/extension.js b/src/extension.js
index a2891cd..786e391 100644
--- a/src/extension.js
+++ b/src/extension.js
@@ -397,7 +397,17 @@ const OpenweatherMenuButton = new Lang.Class({
     },
 
     _checkConnectionState: function() {
-        this._connected = this._network_monitor.network_available;
+        let url = this.getWeatherProviderURL();
+        let address = Gio.NetworkAddress.parse_uri(url, 80);
+        let cancellable = Gio.Cancellable.new();
+        this._connected = false;
+        try {
+            this._connected = this._network_monitor.can_reach(address, cancellable);
+        } catch (err) {
+            let title = _("Can not not connect to %s").format(url);
+            //                Main.notifyError(title, err.message);
+            log(title + '\n' + err.message);
+        }
         if (this._connected)
             this.parseWeatherCurrent();
     },