Download url from VB6 without the filename

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I have a problem for download a file from a URL, via VB6. The link is like this. All of the server, are similar:

https://www.inforis.org/nuevo_ris/download_file.php?token=54cf5c32931c08ee9c03cd01ab5ea156&id=7394

I can download it using simple Inet Download function, but can´t get de filename. The server gives me only this Headers of the file:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:14:23 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)
Last-Modified: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:59:15 GMT
Etag: "400ae-1bd39a-4d2e302e7d6c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 1823642
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

But no the name, or the Location
Can anyone help me, please?

Thanks

Posted 15-Jan-13 8:57am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Jan-13 15:31pm

Why do you think you need such a name?
—SA

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Master.Man1980 15-Jan-13 17:03pm

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[no name] 15-Jan-13 17:09pm

Search jonxvel. I am there....here! Alive!

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2013-01-15T09:31:00

Solution 1

The URL and related content you receive via HTTP response is not associated with any particular file name. The resources obtained on the client side via the HTTP protocol do not have to be mapped on any file system. You can use any valid file name you like.

[EDIT]

As to the HTTP header "Location", please read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_location[^],
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616[^].

It may or may not be there. Please see also my comments below.

—SA

Posted 15-Jan-13 9:31am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 15-Jan-13 10:47am

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[no name] 15-Jan-13 15:38pm

I know that. But the file of the server has a name!!. This name is necesary for the person who download the file. I used Firebug plugin in Firefox to get the headers and give me all the headers. Why i can get this header with Inet:

Log from Firebug:

https://www.inforis.org/nuevo_ris/download_file.php?token=54cf5c32931c08ee9c03cd01ab5ea156&id=7394

GET /nuevo_ris/download_file.php?token=54cf5c32931c08ee9c03cd01ab5ea156&id=7394 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.inforis.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: es-ES,es;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Cookie: RIS_Autent_Token=Y1GYR1IW2SN24XX4L973
Proxy-Authorization: Basic am9uYXMudmVuZXJvOm5ocmd1M3g2cQ==
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:14:23 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)
Accept-Ranges: bytes
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.3-7+squeeze14
Set-Cookie: RIS_Autorizado=si; expires=Tue, 15-Jan-2013 19:44:23 GMT; path=/download/confer/; domain=.inforis.org; secure
Location: https://www.inforis.org/download/confer/SPX_20130108_RELATO1792.PDF.PGP
Content-Length: 0
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html
----------------------------------------------------------
https://www.inforis.org/download/confer/SPX_20130108_RELATO1792.PDF.PGP

GET /download/confer/SPX_20130108_RELATO1792.PDF.PGP HTTP/1.1
Host: www.inforis.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: es-ES,es;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Cookie: RIS_Autorizado=si
Proxy-Authorization: Basic am9uYXMudmVuZXJvOm5ocmd1M3g2cQ==
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:14:23 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.16 (Debian)
Last-Modified: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 22:59:15 GMT
Etag: "400ae-1bd39a-4d2e302e7d6c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 1823642
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
----------------------------------------------------------

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 15-Jan-13 15:48pm

It may have a name, so what?

The resource may or may not have the name and correspond to a point of the file system of the host executing HTTP server. Such mapping or even one-to-one correspondence may exist, but it does not have to, for a very, very good reason. That's why you cannot see a file name in your headers. HTTP is fully free from mapping between URLs and server-side file names. The client side application should not rely on any assumptions on such mapping. Again, this is done for good, not for evil.

Just reconcile yourself with that fact, that's all you can do.

—SA