Encoding Used in FTP Port within webMethods?

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What is the encoding webMethods applies, when we put data using the FTP port option.

We have created a FTP port using the ports. Then, when the flat file is put in the ns/…/…/ directory, we are unable to specify the encoding.

This is creating problems for non UTF-8 encoded files.

Env: wM 6.5 SP2
Help much appreciated
Bhavani Shankar

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May be you can try specifying content-type in the ftp put cmdline?? like application/x-wmflatfile for flatfiles and i dont think setting encode is required for flatfiles.

HTH,
RMG

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I dont want to set any encoding. But when webMethods fetches the file, I want to use my own encoding of choice.

When we use pub.client.ftp, encoding can be specified. Similarly, we are unable to do this when we use the FTP port.

Atleast I want to know what encoding is used by wM for such FTP get.
Hope my question is clear now

Thanks
Bhavani Shankar

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The FTP port will normally invoke your service passing an InputStream object. You can use streamToBytes and then bytesToString, which allows you to specify the encoding–probably ISO-8859-1.

The default encoding is usually UTF-8.