[horde] singleton() and ftp_get() conflict?

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Espen Jürgensen <olfert at hhkol.dk>:

> Hi Horde people,
> 
> For some reason singleton() and PHP's ftp_get() seem to conflict, making
> it impossible to for me to use ftp_get in the Horde add-on I'm writing. I
> use the latest release of Horde (2.1), and PHP is 4.1.2.
> 
> The bug (or at least, that's what I think it is) is quite easy to
> reproduce if you have access to a FTP-server. Just put the following code
> in a .php in a directory belonging to some Horde-app, adjust host-name,
> user and password, and then run the code a couple of times. You will find
> that after 1 or 2 reloads the php 'freezes', and that it won't log out of
> the ftp-server until timeout.
> 
> <?php
> // Find the base file path of Horde
> @define('HORDE_BASE', dirname(__FILE__) . '/..');
> 
> // Registry
> require_once HORDE_BASE . '/lib/Registry.php';
> $registry = &Registry::singleton();
> 
> $host = 'localhost'; $port = 21;
> $user = ''; $pass = '';
> $src= ".forward"; $dst = "/tmp/forwardftp";
> $mode = FTP_ASCII;
> 
> $ftpConnection = ftp_connect($host, $port);
> ftp_login($ftpConnection, $user, $pass);
> ftp_get($ftpConnection, $dst, $src, $mode);
> ftp_quit($ftpConnection);
> 
> echo "Transfer complete";
> ?>
> 
> If you remove singleton(), everything is sweet... and even if you just do
> ftp_put instead of ftp_get, it will work.
> 
> Anybody know of a fix og a possible work-around? I couldn't find anything
> in the bug database nor in the maillist archives.

This makes no sense, and if anything, probably points to a problem with PHP,
not Horde...

-chuck

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