<p dir="auto">See <a href="https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/pull/4543/files/4c12a234ae65d49678a9840708ff5e7b9d6dcecc#diff-04eeb72b0ac2a03d00f2b1dcc3268ebc">https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/pull/4543/files/4c12a234ae65d49678a9840708ff5e7b9d6dcecc#diff-04eeb72b0ac2a03d00f2b1dcc3268ebc</a></p>
<p dir="auto">We should add support for following FTP links like:<br>
ftp://www.example.com/somedir/somefile.xml</p>
<p dir="auto">I suppose Requests will only use the URL attribute (and perhaps some data in meta, if it's needed).</p>
<p dir="auto">As for Responses, they will contain the file contents in the body, as one would expect.<br>
here should be a flag to enable/disable passive FTP, perhaps even per spider.</p>