How to List Directory Contents with FTP in C#?

Question

How to List Directory Contents with FTP in C# ?

I am using below code to List Directory Contents with FTP it is returning result in XML format ,but i want only the name of directory not the whole content.

How i Can do that ?

public class WebRequestGetExample
{
    public static void Main ()
    {
        // Get the object used to communicate with the server.
        FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://www.contoso.com/");
        request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectoryDetails;

        // This example assumes the FTP site uses anonymous logon.
        request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential ("anonymous","[e-mail]");

        FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();

        Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);
        Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());

        Console.WriteLine("Directory List Complete, status {0}", response.StatusDescription);

        reader.Close();
        response.Close();
    }
}

MSDN

Answer 1

If you want to list the name of the files that are inside de directory, you have to put (reqFTP.Proxy = null;) before you invoke (reqFTP.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectory;).

Hope this can help you!

Answer 2

There is a method GetDirectoryInformation() in following link which fetches files and directories recursively from a FTP directory.

Getting files from FTP directory recursively

Answer 3

Some proxies reformat the directory listing, so it's quite difficult to parse a directory listing reliably unless you can guarantee that the proxy doesn't change

Answer 4

You need ListDirectory that lists the directory contents

EDIT: Or you can use this Chilkat library that wraps it up nicely for you

Answer 5

Try this:

FtpWebRequest ftpRequest = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri);
ftpRequest.Credentials =new NetworkCredential("anonymous","[e-mail]");
ftpRequest.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectory;
FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)ftpRequest.GetResponse();
StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream());

List<string> directories = new List<string>();

string line = streamReader.ReadLine();
while (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(line))
{
    directories.Add(line);
    line = streamReader.ReadLine();
}

streamReader.Close();

It gave me a list of directories... all listed in the directories string list... tell me if that is what you needed

Answer 6

You are probably looking for PrintWorkingDirectory