HTTPAPI: Output to File changing brackets

[I first sent this to the FTPAPI mailing list, but it never showed up there, so I thought I'd try here]

Recently a vendor of ours changed from providing an on-premise solution to requiring that we use their web services instead.
In initial testing, I was getting the data response back to the RPG program directly and everything was fine. However due to the high volume of data, I now have the API output the data to the IFS, and then I parse it from there. However, when I have the API output the file to the IFS, it's replacing the brackets as if it thinks they are a part of the data. The quick solution was to have the process fix the brackets, but I feel both the API changing the brackets as well as me fixing them is taking way too long.

Example of data being returned:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/";>&lt;?xml version="1.0"?&gt;
&lt;Response xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"&gt;
&lt;Successful&gt;Y&lt;/Successful&gt;
&lt;ResponseCode&gt;9999&lt;/ResponseCode&gt;
&lt;HeaderMessage&gt;Success&lt;/HeaderMessage&gt;

The procedure I'm calling is http_url_post
I'm not sure if this matters, but:
Content Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
User Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)

Do you have any suggestions to prevent the bracket replacement from happening?

I scoured the HTTPAPI source and didn't see come across anything I felt was causing this to happen.

Thanks,

Kurt Anderson
System Development Manager, Service Delivery Platform
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