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| author | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2022-01-09 11:34:37 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> | 2022-01-09 16:04:05 +0100 |
| commit | a6f227252cfc80c7c44be395f5a6952221313b74 (patch) | |
| tree | 20327acd73c0e1f3c9ce93e39a6519026482db35 | |
| parent | d1237ac906ae7e3cd7a22c3a2d3a135a97edfbf5 (diff) | |
| download | curl-a6f227252cfc80c7c44be395f5a6952221313b74.tar.gz | |
remote-header-name.d: clarify
- it strips off the path from the server provided name
- it saves in current directory or --output-dir
Ref: https://curl.se/mail/archive-2022-01/0032.html
Closes #8249
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/cmdline-opts/remote-header-name.d | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/docs/cmdline-opts/remote-header-name.d b/docs/cmdline-opts/remote-header-name.d index 00db0b455..b9550deed 100644 --- a/docs/cmdline-opts/remote-header-name.d +++ b/docs/cmdline-opts/remote-header-name.d @@ -8,10 +8,15 @@ Added: 7.20.0 See-also: remote-name --- This option tells the --remote-name option to use the server-specified -Content-Disposition filename instead of extracting a filename from the URL. +Content-Disposition filename instead of extracting a filename from the URL. If +the server-provided file name contains a path, that will be stripped off +before the file name is used. + +The file is saved in the current directory, or in the directory specified with +--output-dir. If the server specifies a file name and a file with that name already exists -in the current working directory it will not be overwritten and an error will +in the destination directory, it will not be overwritten and an error will occur. If the server does not specify a file name then this option has no effect. |