Review Request 116523: Do not call ftpSendMimeType for empty files in Ftp::ftpGet

[Dawit Alemayehu]

> On March 4, 2014, 7:42 p.m., David Faure wrote:
> > I don't get it. What's the problem with sending a mimetype for empty files? I would think this is actually expected - for all files, including empty ones. Why does this fix the bug?
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> Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
>     It fails and ends up sending an error message. See the if statement in while(true) loop in ftpSendMimeType. Even if that check does not fail and  the while(true) loop completes successfully, the next statement "if (!buffer.isEmpty())" will be false for empty files. Hence it is completely useless to call ftpSendMimeType from ftpGet for empty files.

dfaure: any further questions on this?


- Dawit


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On March 2, 2014, 2:20 p.m., Dawit Alemayehu wrote:
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> (Updated March 2, 2014, 2:20 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs and David Faure.
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> Bugs: 323491
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323491
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> Repository: kdelibs
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> Description
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> The attached patch fixes a bug where copying empty files (size == 0) from an ftp server to any other remote server (sftp, ftp) results in an error message that states the file could not be opened.
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> Diffs
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>   kioslave/ftp/ftp.cpp 5bb2e8d 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/116523/diff/
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> Testing
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> Attempt to copy an empty file from any ftp server to a remote destination, e.g. sftp server.
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> Thanks,
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> Dawit Alemayehu
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