On Thu, Aug 10, 2006, securehell_at_hushmail.com said:

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> Hi group,
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> My appologies for cross-posting this to the curl-users group.
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> I am using libcurl for a multithreaded app that downloads multiple
> urls. Some urls are exact files (e.g. www.myhost.com/file.txt)
> while others are just hosts (e.g. www.myhost.com), or
> subdirectories (e.g. www.myhost.com/directory) or even scripts
> (e.g. www.myhost.com/script.php?file).
>
> In all cases I want the filename of the actual file downloaded
> whether it is "index.html" or "setup.exe".
>
> Can libcurl return this information in a callback? I cannot seem to
> find it in any of the man pages or even the curl headers.

you cant find it, cause its not available. unless the server sends a
redirect back to you telling you that www.server.com is really
/index.html, you have no way of knowing what the filename was. In fact,
there may have been no file at all, think about mod_perl type websites...

allan

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> Thanks,
>
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