posted 22 years ago
I'm trying to download a file. I don't know what the filename is because the URL hits a CGI script. How do I get the filename from before it downloads? A browser is able to, so I think it's in the header. I've tried to get the "content-disposition" field from the URLconnection, however it is null.
Thanks,
Justin
Here is some of the code:
readMe = new URL("http://mysite.com/runthis.php?rid=" + i);
URLConnection rc = readMe.openConnection();
System.out.println("filename: " + rc.getHeaderField("Content-Disposition"));
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(
rc.getInputStream()));
// Create the stream for the output file
PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(
new BufferedWriter(
new FileWriter(