FtpWebRequest returns HTML, not text

Question

I'm trying to get a directory listing from an FTP account through a proxy. Currently I get the correct results, but wrapped in an HTML page. I could off course start filtering the information out of the response, but I think there should be a cleaner way. When searching for a decent sollution, all I found were classes going back to socket level, usually not considering proxy authentication. public List getLS() { List result = null; if (Connect()){ WebResponse response = null; result = new List(); reqFTP.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectory; reqFTP.UsePassive = true; reqFTP.Proxy = new WebProxy("internet:80"); reqFTP.Proxy.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password); response = reqFTP.GetResponse(); StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream()); while (!reader.EndOfStream) { result.Add(reader.ReadLine()); } } else { throw new Exception("Could not connect to remote server"); } return result; }