Plugin Automatic Update via FTP - SLL option will not deactivate once activated

[carltonbale]

In WordPress 2.5.0 and 2.5.1, plugin automatic update was working properly via FTP. I then decided to try the FTP SSL option and received the error message

"Error: There was an error connecting to the server, Please verify the settings are correct."

So apparently my server does not support FTP over SSL. So I disabled the SSL option by setting "Use SSL" to "No". However, I continued to receive the same connection error message as above. The message would appear no matter what was entered into the FTP configuration page.

I finally added the following line to my wp-config.php file:

define('FTP_SSL', false);

This caused the SSL setting within the plugin FTP updater to be overwritten with the correct value. FTP updates of plugins began to again function properly after making this change.

[DD32]

This is due to a rather anoying thing with PHP:

$string = "0";
var_dump( empty($string) ); = true
}}
A string with only a 0 is classified as an empty string.

Attached patch sets it based on if the item was post'd along or not.

[ryan]

(In [7949]) Fix FTP SSL setting. Props DD32. fixes #6986 for trunk

[ryan]

(In [7950]) Fix FTP SSL setting. Props DD32. fixes #6986 for 2.5

[ryan]

Milestone 2.5.2 deleted