new_file_common: call "noop" before "create_close"
An upload could've taken a long time, ping and try to ensure
socket is valid to minimize (but not completely eliminate) the
chance create_close hits a stale socket (while reading the
response after writing to it) and becomes non-retryable. We
treat create_close specially as its less idempotent than any
other command (even other non-idempotent ones). There may be no
hope of retrying the upload at all if data was streamed and
calling create_close twice will hurt us...