How do I save a file using the response header filename with cURL?
CurlCurl Problem Overview
This question relates to the command line version of cURL.
I'm trying to download a file from a CGI script.
http://example.com/perl/dl.pl?ID=2
Using a browser the filename comes up as remotefilename.gz.
cURL wants to save the file as dl.pl?ID=2.
How do I get cURL to save to a file with the filename from the response header?
Curl Solutions
Solution 1 - Curl
-J/--remote-header-name is the option you want.
You use -J in conjunction with -O, which makes curl use the file name part from the URL as its primary way to name the output file and then if there is a Content-disposition: header in the response, curl will use that name instead.
Solution 2 - Curl
curl http://example.com/dl.php?file=3123123 -O -J
if server uses redirection use these:
--location-trusted
--max-redirs 10
Solution 3 - Curl
curl -OJ gave me segmentation fault: 11 error when attempting to download multiple URLs at once.
Instead, I used wget. The latest version supports HTTP Content-Disposition headers, which often contain filename information.
wget --content-disposition http://example.com/download/url
Solution 4 - Curl
you can try the -o or -O option.