From f7b0b3b7b3bcd2ca5c370b9c0240d44410b1fb56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: reger <reger18@arcor.de>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2015 23:01:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] avoid runtime exception by earlier testing for seed.ip=null

---
 source/net/yacy/peers/Protocol.java | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/source/net/yacy/peers/Protocol.java b/source/net/yacy/peers/Protocol.java
index ceafce8d2..bc7463c90 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/peers/Protocol.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/peers/Protocol.java
@@ -1379,11 +1379,11 @@ public final class Protocol {
         boolean gzipBody,
         final int timeout) {
         String ip = targetSeed.getIP();
-        final String address = targetSeed.getPublicAddress(ip);
-        if ( address == null ) {
+        if ( ip == null ) {
             Network.log.warn("no address for transferRWI");
             return null;
         }
+        final String address = targetSeed.getPublicAddress(ip);
 
         // prepare post values
         final String salt = crypt.randomSalt();