URLConnection FTP list files

Question

URL url =  new URL(\"ftp://user:pass@ftp.example.com/thefolder/\");
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
...
// List files in folder...

Answer 1

You could use Apache commons FTPClient

This would allow you to call listFiles with...

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        FTPClient client = new FTPClient();
        client.connect("c64.rulez.org");
        client.enterLocalPassiveMode();
        client.login("anonymous", "");
        FTPFile[] files = client.listFiles("/pub");
        for (FTPFile file : files) {
            System.out.println(file.getName());
        }