It seems that its only possible to upload files over FTP using:
https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Publish+Over+FTP+Plugin
But I need to download a file over FTP, I could write a groovy plugin for this but it seems strange that there is no plugin for this
To download a file, drag the file from the browser window to the desktop. You can also double-click the filename, and you will be prompted to either save or open the file. To upload a file, drag the file from your hard drive to the browser window.
Configure a job to Publish Over FTP Open a jobs main page and then click "Configure" from the left hand menu. Find the "Send build artifacts over FTP" checkbox in the "Post-build Actions" section (as below) and click in the box.
Maybe the reason is that it is somewhat trivial to download a file during a build using a one-liner like:
curl -O ftp://server/path/to/file
The curl tool is available for just about any operating system.
If you only need to download one file over FTP and do not need to check out any other files, you could also use the URL SCM plugin.
There is now an SSH2Easy plugin available that supports sftp to/from remote systems. My company has moved to requiring use of sftp and won't allow ftp any longer.
This plugin, at the time of this reply, still needs some polishing, but it does work.
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