Bugs item #3138337, was opened at 2010-12-16 03:58
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Category: http
Group: new feature request
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Wont Fix
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: Zeokat (zeokat)
Assigned to: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Summary: Remote-name into a redirection

Initial Comment:
Using curl 7.21.2 (i386-pc-win32) libcurl/7.21.2 zlib/1.2.5, under Windows XP SP3.
When i make a request to get a file from a url like: http://www.web.com/getfile.html ,
then exist a redirection to http://www.web.com/myfile.zip and cURL follow it correctly
but cURL output name is getfile.html and it should be myfile.zip.

Command used: cURL -L -O --progress-bar --cookie "auth=cookie.Value" http://www.web.com/getfile.html

I know that can setup the output file name, but using "-O/--remote-name Write output to a file named as the remote file" , into a redirection cURL not writes what i can call exactly remote name, since it uses name of the first request and not the name of the redirection.
From my point of view, nowadays with "rewrite engines" and "fiendly urls" should be an option to use last redirection filename or simply use it as default output filename.

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>Comment By: Daniel Stenberg (bagder)
Date: 2010-12-20 10:29

Message:
-O will remain as it is

we do offer -J now for servers that send the correct Content-Disposition
header

I have no plans to introduce yet another minor variation for these options
as I believe these should suffice.

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Received on 2010-12-20