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Rory Winston closed NET-278.
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       Resolution: Later
    Fix Version/s: 3.0

I potentially may  this issue by swallowing the IOException and setting streams 
to null in the finally block:

    public void disconnect() 
    {
        try {
                if (_socket_ != null) _socket_.close();
                if (_input_ != null) _input_.close();
                if (_output_ != null) _output_.close();
                if (_socket_ != null) _socket_ = null;
        }
        catch (IOException e) {}
        finally {
                _input_ = null;
                _output_ = null;
        }
    }


But I am not sure that swallowing the exception is a good idea.

> FTPClient.disconnect() shouldn't throw IOException
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NET-278
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NET-278
>             Project: Commons Net
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>    Affects Versions: 2.0
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: Raffaele Sgarro
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 3.0
>
>   Original Estimate: 0.08h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0.08h
>
> FTPClient.disconnect() shouldn't throw IOExceptions because it is typically 
> placed in a finally block and it doesn't make much sense to
> try {
> client.disconnect()
> } catch (IOException e) {
> // You can't actually do anything
> }
> What is the purpose of such an exception if nobody can use it? There's 
> nothing we can do if the client couldn't disconnect... You always usa a catch 
> block with a /*do nothing*/ in your samples, so I think it's only an elegant 
> thing to have a try block in a finally block...

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