diff --git a/source/de/anomic/crawler/retrieval/FTPLoader.java b/source/de/anomic/crawler/retrieval/FTPLoader.java
index cff12bd18..740172f30 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/crawler/retrieval/FTPLoader.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/crawler/retrieval/FTPLoader.java
@@ -231,6 +231,7 @@ public class FTPLoader {
         
         // if the mimetype and file extension is supported we start to download the file
         final long size = ftpClient.fileSize(path);
+        responseHeader.put(HeaderFramework.CONTENT_LENGTH, String.valueOf(size));
         String parserError = null;
         if ((acceptOnlyParseable && (parserError = TextParser.supports(url, mime)) != null) ||
             (size > maxFileSize && maxFileSize >= 0)) {
@@ -252,7 +253,7 @@ public class FTPLoader {
                     responseHeader,
                     "200",
                     mp == null ? null : new CrawlProfile(mp),
-                    url.toTokens().getBytes());
+                    null);
             return response;
         }
         
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/crawler/retrieval/Response.java b/source/de/anomic/crawler/retrieval/Response.java
index 0fec79f27..bb21ba980 100755
--- a/source/de/anomic/crawler/retrieval/Response.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/crawler/retrieval/Response.java
@@ -241,11 +241,11 @@ public class Response {
     }
 
     public long size() {
-        if (this.content != null) return this.content.length;
         if (this.responseHeader != null) {
             // take the size from the response header
             return this.responseHeader.getContentLength();
         }
+        if (this.content != null) return this.content.length;
         // the size is unknown
         return -1;
     }