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Retrieve FTP files directly to memory

The CFFTP tag includes extensive support for FTP operations. However, all remote file access requires interaction with the local drive. For example, if you want to retrieve and parse an XML file, you have to get the file and save to disk, then use cffile to load it into memory, and finally parse it. All this extra disk access takes unnecessary time.

Since CFMX is now Java based, we can take advantage of the Java network library to perform this same action without disk access.

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