Hi curlers

Im having a bit of a problem with an application
Ive written, which occasionally fails with an
"FTP response reading failed" from curl_easy_perform().

Schlepping through ftp.c I see that this occurs
when Curl_read() sets the gotbytes variable to a
negative value in Curl_GetFTPResponse(). I also
get a SIGPIPE (not yet trapped so crashes the app)
presumably raised somewhere in Curl_read().

I wonder if someone could explain what is happening
here? It sounds like libcurl is trying to talk to
another process to ask for data, but fails to send
anything through a pipe it has set up for the purpose.
Any ideas as to what could be causing this?

Thanks in advance!

Jim

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