From 206061697b3c2d92c4c5122c59ab05001d30239d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2022 11:34:37 +0100 Subject: 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 --- docs/cmdline-opts/remote-header-name.d | 9 +++++++-- 1 file 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. -- cgit v1.2.1