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Re: [ecf-dev] File name of retrieved file
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Hi Thomas,
Thomas Hallgren wrote:
When obtaining a file from a remote source it is often good to know
the intended filename. It might be used in progress reporting and
sometimes also as a source of information when naming the resulting
local file.
The URL in itself is sometimes very cryptic and the path might contain
a name in some numeric form (calculated UUID perhaps). In some cases,
the path doesn't contain a name at all (ends with download.php for
instance) and the actual path is hidden in one of the parameters. When
using HTTP, the returned "Content-Disposition" response header field
is often a much better source for the filename the the actual URL.
Using ECF, I cannot obtain this header field and that's OK. There's a
lot of transfer implementations where use of response headers isn't
applicable. I would however like a
IIncomingFileTransfer.getRemoteFileName() method. The HTTP transfer
could use the Content-Disposition and other file transfer
implementation could do a best effort based on whatever algorithm that
would be appropriate for them. I'm attaching the code that Buckminster
uses to extract the file name from the Content-Disposition header below.
What do you think? Could something like this be make available in ECF
incoming file transfer?
Sure. Please open an enhancement request and we'll get it in this week.
Scott
