Confirming Buffer Output for GET Operation in node-red-contrib-ftp (No File System Writes)

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Hi Node-RED community,

I'm working on a flow that needs to read a file from a remote FTP server using node-red-contrib-ftp and output the content as a buffer or string for parsing, without writing to the file system (fs access is a no-go for security reasons).

The documentation for node-red-contrib-ftp suggests that setting msg.localFilename to a buffer is possible "msg.localFilename (buffer or the path/name of the file on the local machine - i.e. the one running NR)."

I am not sure how to do so. Has anyone successfully used node-red-contrib-ftp this way to get file content as a buffer without file system writes?

Any known quirks or alternative nodes that achieve this (buffer-based FTP read without fs access)?

Any insights or experiences would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

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is an exec node with curl an option?
i testet it with my webspace ftp server :wink:

curl --ssl-reqd -u "user:password" ftp://server/test/file.txt