Bug 76885

Summary: trying to download a nonexistant file produces empty file with that name
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Daniel Resare <noa-bugzilla-redhat>
Component: cadaverAssignee: Joe Orton <jorton>
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Checks if get operation fails, and if the downloaded file is empty remove it none

Description Daniel Resare 2002-10-28 18:37:48 UTC 
Description of Problem:

When i try to download a file that does not exist, an empty local file is
created with the name of the file I tried to download.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
cadaver-0.20.5-2

How Reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run 'cadaver http://ftp.metamatrix.se/' (or any other webdav enabled server)
2. type 'get nonexistant.empty'
3. quit the program
4. run 'ls -l *.empty'

Actual Results:
[noa@ulysses slask]$ ls -l *.empty
-rw-rw-r--    1 noa      noa             0 okt 28 19:37 nonexistant.empty


Expected Results:
No file should be created, that would be just stupid *smile*
Comment 1 Noa Resare 2003-08-28 06:44:46 UTC 
Created attachment 94023 [details]
Checks if get operation fails, and if the downloaded file is empty remove it

I got bored with this bug, so I fixed it. One can argue that the fix is not all
that beautiful but on the other hand the code is full of comparable uglyness,
and the RealFix^tm would require changing the interface of the bundled libneon
and I suppose it's better to leave that to the maintainers.
Comment 2 Joe Orton 2003-08-28 08:16:00 UTC 
Thanks for reporting this.

Yes, you can't solve this elegantly using neon's ne_get(), you have to use the
more complicated ne_request_create/begin_request/end_request/read_response_block
interface to do it properly.

Speaking as author of cadaver rather than cadaver package maintainer for Red
Hat,  I intend to do this for a future release.
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-07 17:41:50 UTC 
Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still
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Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2006-10-18 14:42:06 UTC 
Red Hat Linux is no longer supported by Red Hat, Inc. If you are still
running Red Hat Linux, you are strongly advised to upgrade to a
current Fedora Core release or Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable.
Some information on which option may be right for you is available at
http://www.redhat.com/rhel/migrate/redhatlinux/.

Closing as CANTFIX.