FTPClient unable to parse LIST response from Apache FTPServer

Question

While trying to perform a listFiles() command using Apache Commons Net 3.3 FTPSClient against an Mina's Apache FTP Server parsing of the listing fails.

I've done some debugging and the entries attribute on FTPListParseEngine after reading the server list has entries formatted like this:

[x­Ô[, 0ÐÿB÷0Hy, º.B4¡­ÓÇò, «b%-%Mp2s¹ ó6

I wouldn't know if this is an encoding issue on the server side or the clients'

Any hint would be appreciated, Thanks!

Answer 1

Finally figured it out. It turns out that my FTP server supports compression. I was setting mode to "Z" (compressed) after logging in which seems to alter further transfers behaviour.

I'm assuming the library was trying to parse a compressed response as it would be plain.