- David McCreedy brought a fix and a new test case (129) to make libcurl work

  again when downloading files over FTP using ASCII and it turns out that the
  final size of the file is not the same as the initial size the server
  reported. This is very common since servers don't take the newline
  conversions into account.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/ftp.c b/lib/ftp.c
index 497759f10..0984ca961 100644
--- a/lib/ftp.c
+++ b/lib/ftp.c
@@ -2204,6 +2204,8 @@ static CURLcode ftp_state_get_resp(struct connectdata *conn,
 
     if(size > data->req.maxdownload && data->req.maxdownload > 0)
       size = data->req.size = data->req.maxdownload;
+    else if((instate != FTP_LIST) && (data->set.prefer_ascii))
+      size = -1; /* kludge for servers that understate ASCII mode file size */
 
     infof(data, "Maxdownload = %" FORMAT_OFF_T "\n", data->req.maxdownload);