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Re: --remote-header-name security?

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-users <curl-users_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2022 11:16:59 +0100 (CET)

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022, Paul Gilmartin via curl-users wrote:

> or will curl download only to the current directory?

--remote-header-name will always trim off the remotely provided directory name
before it uses the file name.

It will save in current directory, or in the given --output-dir.

> Also, what's a good way of testing for --remote-header-name? I'm thinking:
> curl --remote-header-name --remote-name URL
> if $?==23 then curl --output tempname URL

That won't work. The --remote-name part will kick in if there's no
Content-Disposition header.

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Received on 2022-01-09