Retrieving a List of Files from an FTP server in C#

Question

I\'m trying to retrieve a list of files from an FTP server, but I\'m getting some weird non-ASCII responses.

Here is the code that I am using:

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Answer 1

For what it's worth, the System.Net namespace has the FtpWebRequest and FtpWebResponse classes beginning in .Net 2.0.

Here's some code I've used that writes the server's files to a local file:

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FtpWebRequest ftpRequest = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(address);
ftpRequest.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password);
ftpRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectoryDetails;
ftpRequest.KeepAlive = false;

FtpWebResponse ftpResponse = (FtpWebResponse)ftpRequest.GetResponse();

sr = new StreamReader(ftpResponse.GetResponseStream());
sw = new StreamWriter(new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create));

sw.WriteLine(sr.ReadToEnd());
sw.Close();

ftpResponse.Close();
sr.Close();
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