Monitor Internet connections in XP/Vista

[Mike Driscoll]

On Feb 2, 3:05 am, pranav <pra... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am designing a project for Windows XP/Vista, one part of which is a
> background process that monitors internet connections. If the user
> tries to connect to any particular site, say myDummySite.com in then
> some actions are taken, based on fixed policies.
> This can be thought of a mini firewall.
>
> I am sure there must be some good libraries for this purpose. I need
> the names of those libraries.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pranav Prakash

You could try urllib2, socket or just call ping with subprocess.

Mike