From ca8550a206d8c1eed26910573eaeb3fd10e032ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Surda <surda@economicsofbitcoin.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2017 23:37:25 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Don't send requests for 0 objects

---
 src/class_receiveDataThread.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/class_receiveDataThread.py b/src/class_receiveDataThread.py
index 2cdd91e6..a569e2d8 100644
--- a/src/class_receiveDataThread.py
+++ b/src/class_receiveDataThread.py
@@ -415,6 +415,8 @@ class receiveDataThread(threading.Thread):
     # Send a getdata message to our peer to request the object with the given
     # hash
     def sendgetdata(self, hashes):
+        if len(hashes) == 0:
+            return
         logger.debug('sending getdata to retrieve %i objects', len(hashes))
         payload = encodeVarint(len(hashes)) + ''.join(hashes)
         self.sendDataThreadQueue.put((0, 'sendRawData', protocol.CreatePacket('getdata', payload)), False)