Commit c2127b44 authored by Daniel Stenberg's avatar Daniel Stenberg
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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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 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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