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I use DownloadManager, which in available since Android 2.3, to download FTP. But it does not work.

I do not know how to make it work? I did not find proper examples. Does DownloadManager support FTP?

gnuanu
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bonnie
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    No, it doesn't. It supports only `HTTP` downloads. You can find more information about `DownloadManager` from documentation: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/DownloadManager.html – Sapan Diwakar Jan 08 '13 at 10:07

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Unfortunatelly, FTP won't work.

DownloadManager supports HTTP. And HTTPS is supported since ICS. If you try downloading from FTP you receive one of these exceptions:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can only download HTTP URIs

or

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Can only download HTTP/HTTPS URIs

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