I’m using urllib.urlopen to read a file from a URL. What is the best way to get the filename? Do servers always return the Content-Disposition header?
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I’m using urllib.urlopen to read a file from a URL. What is the best
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I’m using urllib.urlopen to read a file from a URL. What is the best way to get the filename? Do servers always return the Content-Disposition header?
Thanks.
It’s an optional header, so no. See if it exists, and if not then fall back to checking the URL.