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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2017-02-15 15:12:32 +0100
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2017-02-15 15:12:32 +0100
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TODO: consider file name from the redirected URL with -O ?
It isn't easily solved, but with some thinking someone could probably come up with a working approach? Closes #1241
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18.14 --fail without --location should treat 3xx as a failure
18.15 --retry should resume
18.16 send only part of --data
+ 18.17 consider file name from the redirected URL with -O ?
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@@ -1026,6 +1027,25 @@ that doesn't exist on the server, just like --ftp-create-dirs.
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1200
+18.17 consider file name from the redirected URL with -O ?
+
+ When a user gives a URL and uses -O, and curl follows a redirect to a new
+ URL, the file name is not extracted and used from the newly redirected-to URL
+ even if the new URL may have a much more sensible file name.
+
+ This is clearly documented and helps for security since there's no surprise
+ to users which file name that might get overwritten. But maybe a new option
+ could allow for this or maybe -J should imply such a treatment as well as -J
+ already allows for the server to decide what file name to use so it already
+ provides the "may overwrite any file" risk.
+
+ This is extra tricky if the original URL has no file name part at all since
+ then the current code path will error out with an error message, and we can't
+ *know* already at that point if curl will be redirected to a URL that has a
+ file name...
+
+ See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1241
+
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