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Asked: 2026-05-13T18:34:56+00:00

It looks like standard Java URL class FTP client cannot work with username having

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It looks like standard Java URL class FTP client cannot work with username having characters such as “@” and “.”.

The username I get from my hosting provider is something like “username@domain.com”, so the whole URL looks like “ftp://username@domain.com:password@domain.com“. It works perfectly with all ftp clients, but apparently not with Java. Any suggestions

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  1. Editorial Team

    Have you tried to encode these characters, i.e. username%40domain.com:password?

    String ftpUser = URLEncoder.encode(username, "UTF-8");
String ftpPass = URLEncoder.encode(password, "UTF-8");
String url = String.format("ftp://%s:%s@domain.com", ftpUser, ftpPass);
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