# File rice/url.rb, line 112
    def fetchFTP
	# Split path into '/', directory-path, '/', file
	@path =~ /\(.*)\(.*)$/
	dir, file = $1, $2

	data = nil
	# (Port ignored)
	Net::FTP.start(@host, @username, @password) { | ftp |

	    # Read data. We read into /dev/null but at the same time
	    # capture the bytes into a string.
	    data = ''
	    ftp.getbinaryfile(file, '/dev/null') { | bytes |
		data << bytes
	    }
	}
	return data
    end