From 12b2412c5217b105a86ccda57f261a33fcfd4d62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 17:04:04 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ftp: treat server's response 421 as CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT

Bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/650255
Reported by: Simon H.
---
 RELEASE-NOTES | 1 +
 lib/ftp.c     | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 2ade98a00..f73486614 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ This release includes the following bugfixes:
  o ftp: prevent server from hanging on closed data connection when stopping
    a transfer before the end of the full transfer (ranges)
  o LDAP: detect non-binary attributes properly
+ o ftp: treat server's response 421 as CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT
 
 This release includes the following known bugs:
 
diff --git a/lib/ftp.c b/lib/ftp.c
index d79878e82..416e5ecfa 100644
--- a/lib/ftp.c
+++ b/lib/ftp.c
@@ -425,6 +425,12 @@ static CURLcode ftp_readresp(curl_socket_t sockfd,
   if(ftpcode)
     *ftpcode = code;
 
+  if(421 == code)
+    /* 421 means "Service not available, closing control connection." and FTP
+     * servers use it to signal that idle session timeout has been exceeded.
+     * If we ignored the response, it could end up hanging in some cases. */
+    return CURLE_OPERATION_TIMEDOUT;
+
   return result;
 }