I made the changes that you can see in the attached file.
It is working for FTP in my test. I made the minimum changes as
possible.
I hope it is correct also for other protocols.

-----Original Message-----
From: curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se
[mailto:curl-library-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of Daniel Stenberg
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2004 11:14
To: libcurl development
Subject: Re: FTP getting empty file.

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Alexander Krasnostavsky wrote:

>
> When getting an empty file while using CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION option,
there
> is no call of write function because it is stopped in line 293 in
> lib/transfer.c:

...

> In this case the empty file does not created in client host. When 0
bytes
> received, the case should distinguish between the first time and
others, so
> for the first time the write function should be called with 0 bytes
just to
> create an empty file.
>
> What do you think?

Yes, this problem is mention in docs/KNOW_BUGS and yes, I would like to
see
this fixed.

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