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Where *directoryname* represents the underlying directory. Can contain nested folders.
The *username* is currently only possible to provide in the hostname parameter.

If no *username* is provided, then {{anonymous}} login is attempted using no password.
If no *port* number is provided, Camel will provide default values according to the protocol (ftp = 21, sftp = 22, ftps = 2222).

You can append query options to the URI in the following format, {{?option=value&option=value&...}}

h3. URI Options
The options below are exclusive for the [FTP2] component. 
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|| Name || Default Value || Description ||
| {{password}} | {{null}} | Specifies the password to use to log in to the remote file system. |
| {{binary}} | {{false}} | Specifies the file transfer mode, BINARY or ASCII. Default is ASCII ({{false}}). |
| {{disconnect}} | {{false}} | *Camel 2.2:* Whether or not to disconnect from remote FTP server right after use. Can be used for both consumer and producer. |
| {{localWorkDirectory}} | {{null}} | When consuming, a local work directory can be used to store the remote file content directly in local files, to avoid loading the content into memory. This is beneficial, if you consume a very big remote file and thus can conserve memory. See below for more details. |
| {{passiveMode}} | {{false}} | *FTP and FTPS only*: Specifies whether to use passive mode connections. Default is active mode ({{false}}). |
| {{securityProtocol}} | {{TLS}} | *FTPS only:* Sets the underlying security protocol. The following values are defined:\\
{{TLS}}: Transport Layer Security\\
{{SSL}}: Secure Sockets Layer |
| {{isImplicit}} | {{false}} | *FTPS only:* Sets the security mode(implicit/explicit). Default is explicit ({{false}}). |
| {{knownHostsFile}} | {{null}} | *SFTP only:* Sets the {{known_hosts}} file, so that the SFTP endpoint can do host key verification. |
| {{privateKeyFile}} | {{null}} | *SFTP only:* Set the private key file to that the SFTP endpoint can do private key verification. |
| {{privateKeyFilePassphrase}} | {{null}} | *SFTP only:* Set the private key file passphrase to that the SFTP endpoint can do private key verification. |
| {{strictHostKeyChecking}} | {{no}} | *SFTP only:* *Camel 2.2:* Sets whether to use strict host key checking. Possible values are: {{no}}, {{yes}} and {{ask}}. {{ask}} does not make sense to use as Camel cannot answer the question for you as its meant for human intervention. *Note:* The default in Camel 2.1 and below was {{ask}}. |
| {{maximumReconnectAttempts}} | 3 | Specifies the maximum reconnect attempts Camel performs when it tries to connect to the remote FTP server. Use 0 to disable this behavior. |
| {{reconnectDelay}} | 1000 | Delay in millis Camel will wait before performing a reconnect attempt. |
| {{ftpClient}} | {{null}} | *FTP and FTPS Only:* *Camel 2.1:* Allows you to use a custom {{org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClient}} instance. |
| {{ftpClientConfig}} | {{null}} | *FTP and FTPS Only:* *Camel 2.1:* Allows you to use a custom {{org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTPClientConfig}} instance. |
| {{ftpClient.trustStore.file}} | {{null}} | *FTPS Only:* Sets the trust store file, so that the FTPS client can look up for trusted certificates. |
| {{ftpClient.trustStore.type}} | {{JKS}} | *FTPS Only:* Sets the trust store type. |
| {{ftpClient.trustStore.algorithm}} | {{SunX509}} | *FTPS Only:* Sets the trust store algorithm. |
| {{ftpClient.trustStore.password}} | {{null}} | *FTPS Only:* Sets the trust store password. |
| {{ftpClient.keyStore.file}} | {{null}} | *FTPS Only:* Sets the key store file, so that the FTPS client can look up for the private certificate. |
| {{ftpClient.keyStore.type}} | {{JKS}} | *FTPS Only:* Sets the key store type. |
| {{ftpClient.keyStore.algorithm}} | {{SunX509}} | *FTPS Only:* Sets the key store algorithm. |
| {{ftpClient.keyStore.password}} | {{null}} | *FTPS Only:* Sets the key store password. |
| {{ftpClient.keyStore.keyPassword}} | {{null}} | *FTPS Only:* Sets the private key password. |

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{info:title=FTPS component default trust store}
By default, the FTPS component trust store accept all certificates. If you only want trust selective certificates, you have to configure the trust store with the {{ftpClient.trustStore.xxx}} options or by configuring a custom {{ftpClient}}.
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You can configure additional options on the {{ftpClient}} and {{ftpClientConfig}} from the URI directly by using the {{ftpClient.}} or {{ftpClientConfig.}} prefix.

For example to set the {{setDataTimeout}} on the {{FTPClient}} to 30 seconds you can do:
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from("ftp://foo@myserver?password=secret&ftpClient.dataTimeout=30000").to("bean:foo");

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h3. More URI options
{info:title:More options}
See [File2] as all the options there also applies for this component.
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h4. Examples
{{ftp://someone@someftpserver.com/public/upload/images/holiday2008?password=secret&binary=true}}
{{ftp://someoneelse@someotherftpserver.co.uk:12049/reports/2008/password=secret&binary=false}}
{{ftp://publicftpserver.com/download}}

{warning:title=FTP Consumer does not support concurrency}
The FTP consumer (with the same endpoint) does not support concurrency (the backing FTP client is not thread safe).
You can use multiple FTP consumers to poll from different endpoints. It is only a single endpoint that does not support concurrent consumers.

The FTP producer does *not* have this issue, it supports concurrency.

In the future we will [add consumer pooling to Camel|https://issues.apache.org/activemq/browse/CAMEL-1682] to allow this consumer to support concurrency as well.
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{tip:title=More information}
This component is an extension of the [File2] component. So there are more samples and details on the [File2] component page.
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h3. Default when consuming files
The [FTP|FTP2] consumer will by default leave the consumed files untouched on the remote FTP server. You have to configure it explicit if you want it to delete the files or move them to another location. For example you can use {{delete=true}} to delete the files, or use {{move=.done}} to move the files into a hidden done sub directory.

The regular [File|File2] consumer is different as it will by default move files to a {{.camel}} sub directory. The reason Camel does *not* do this by default for the FTP consumer is that it may lack permissions by default to be able to move or delete files.

h4. limitations
The option *readLock* can be used to force Camel *not* to consume files that is currently in the progress of being written. However, this option is turned off by default, as it requires that the user has write access. There are other solutions to avoid consuming files that are currently being written over FTP; for instance, you can write to a temporary destination and move the file after it has been written. 

When moving files using {{move}} or {{preMove}} option the files are restricted to the FTP_ROOT folder. That prevents you from moving files outside the FTP area. If you want to move files to another area you can use soft links and move files into a soft linked folder.

h3. Message Headers

The following message headers can be used to affect the behavior of the component

|| Header || Description ||
| {{CamelFileName}} | Specifies the output file name (relative to the endpoint directory) to be used for the output message when sending to the endpoint. If this is not present and no expression either, then a generated message ID is used as the filename instead.  |
| {{CamelFileNameProduced}} | The actual absolute filepath (path + name) for the output file that was written. This header is set by Camel and its purpose is providing end-users the name of the file that was written. |
| {{CamelFileBatchIndex}} | Current index out of total number of files being consumed in this batch. |
| {{CamelFileBatchSize}} | Total number of files being consumed in this batch. |
| {{CamelFileHost}} | The remote hostname. |
| {{CamelFileLocalWorkPath}} | Path to the local work file, if local work directory is used. |

h3. Using Local Work Directory
Camel supports consuming from remote FTP servers and downloading the files directly into a local work directory. This avoids reading the entire remote file content into memory as it is streamed directly into the local file using {{FileOutputStream}}. 

Camel will store to a local file with the same name as the remote file, though with {{.inprogress}} as extension while the file is being downloaded. Afterwards, the file is renamed to remove the {{.inprogress}} suffix. And finally, when the [Exchange] is complete the local file is deleted. 

So if you want to download files from a remote FTP server and store it as files then you need to route to a file endpoint such as:
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from("ftp://someone@someserver.com?password=secret&localWorkDirectory=/tmp").to("file://inbox");

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{tip:title=Optimization by renaming work file}
The route above is ultra efficient as it avoids reading the entire file content into memory. It will download the remote file directly to a local file stream. The {{java.io.File}} handle is then used as the [Exchange] body. The file producer leverages this fact and can work directly on the work file {{java.io.File}} handle and perform a {{java.io.File.rename}} to the target filename. As Camel knows it's a local work file, it can optimize and use a rename instead of a file copy, as the work file is meant to be deleted anyway.

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h4. Consuming a remote FTPS server (implicit SSL) and client authentication
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from("ftps://admin@localhost:2222/public/camel?password=admin&securityProtocol=SSL&isImplicit=true&ftpClient.keyStore.file=./src/test/resources/server.jks&ftpClient.keyStore.password=password&ftpClient.keyStore.keyPassword=password")
  .to("bean:foo");

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h4. Consuming a remote FTPS server (explicit TLS) and a custom trust store configuration
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from("ftps://admin@localhost:2222/public/camel?password=admin&ftpClient.trustStore.file=./src/test/resources/server.jks&ftpClient.trustStore.password=password")
  .to("bean:foo");

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And then we can configure our route using the *filter* attribute to reference our filter (using {{\#}} notation) that we have defines in the spring XML file:

- {{?}} matches one character
- {{*}} matches zero or more characters
- {{**}} matches zero or more directories in a path

The sample below demonstrates how to use it:
{snippet:id=example|lang=xml|url=camel/trunk/tests/camel-itest/src/test/resources/org/apache/camel/itest/ftp/SpringFileAntPathMatcherRemoteFileFilterTest-context.xml}

h3. Debug logging