Configuring File Inbound Protocol for FTP, SFTP and FILE Connections

The following section describes how to configure the file inbound protocol for FTP, SFTP and FILE connections.

To configure the file inbound protocol for FTP connections, you should specify the URL as ftp://{username}:{password}@{hostname/ip_address}/{source_filepath}
```
ftp://admin:pass@localhost/orders
```
To configure the file inbound protocol for SFTP connections, you should specify the URL as sftp://{username}:{password}@{hostname/ip_address}/{source_filepath}
```
sftp://admin:pass@localhost/orders
```

If the password contains special characters, these characters will need to be replaced with their hexadecimal representation.

To configure the file inbound protocol for FILE connections, you should specify the URL as file://{local_file_system_path}
```
file:///home/user/test/in
```

Configuring a Proxy Server over FTP and SFTP Connections

Proxy server specific parameters can be set as URL query parameters. For example, to use Proxy over FTP, you could specify the URL as follows:

ftp://username:password@127.0.0.1/home/wso2/res?proxyServer=127.0.0.1&proxyPort=3128&proxyUsername=proxyuser&proxyPassword=proxyPass&timeout=2500&retryCount=3

Following are the URL parameters you can set:

Parameter	Description	Possible Values	Default Value
`proxyServer`	IP Address of the proxy server	127.0.0.1	false
`proxyPort`	Running port of the proxy server	1328	false
`proxyUsername`	User name of the proxy server		false
`proxyPassword`	Password of the proxy server		false
`timeout`	Connection timeout in milliseconds	1000	5000
`retryCount`	No of retry attempts if the connection timeout	3	5