If credentials for FTP sites are part of the FTP URL GET request (for example, ftp://username:[email protected]), Google Chrome does not send the FTP credentials when Chrome is proxy-aware (explicit) .
When Chrome is configured for explicit proxy and is trying to access an FTP URL that contains the username and password in the URL request, the browser truncates the request. It removes the username and password and then makes the request out to the proxy.
The same behavior has not been observed in a transparent inline deployment; in that deployment, the browser is not proxy-aware.