iphone - SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags returns 0 even when wireless available

Question

I have an app that uses Apples reachability code. When I tab out of the app, turn on airplane mode, go back into the app, I correctly get a message that says no connection is available. If I go back out turn OFF airplane mode and go back into the app, I STILL get the message that no connection is available. The specific problem code is this:

NetworkStatus status = kNotReachable;
if (SCNetworkReachabilityGetFlags(reachabilityRef, &flags))
{
    status = [self networkStatusForFlags: flags];
    return status;
}

I get inside the if statement and flags ends up being 0 (kSCNetworkReachabilityFlagsTransientConnection). What does that mean exactly? Has anyone experienced this and does anyone know a work-around or fix? Been playing with it for hours...

Answer 1

I have found that this is caused by supplying a hostname with a protocol specifier (such as http://hostname instead of just hostname). Try specifying just the hostname by itself to see if this fixes your problem.