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Content-Disposition in dropbox
Is there a way to rename a file while downloading from dropbox without changing the filename itself : For example: Dropbox link : https://www.dropbox.com/s/b06pn1n7w75ihyz/270px-July_Morning_Boby_D...
I want the user to download the file from dropbox by adding a parameter or http header to the link and get the file with the new name, not through another server or rename it locally. I want dropbox to download the file with new name that I will pass in content-disposition headers or other params. I really need this functionality :(
Well, with in active storage, we never stores the files with their real name. We just name it with some unique number or id and we stores the real name in our database. So what we really want, we want a way to pass a the real name in some header or parameters and it will use this name for the file directly at dropbox for downloading it. And will not affect the file.
Well, with in active storage, we never stores the files with their real name. We just name it with some unique number or id and we stores the real name in our database. So what we really want, we want a way to pass a the real name in some header or parameters and it will use this name for the file directly at dropbox for downloading it. And will not affect the file.
Greg, If you will check these links then you will realise that what I am exactly looking for:
Similar think is possible at GCS:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21026132/google-cloud-storage-download-a-file-with-a-different-name
Similar thing is possible with S3:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2611432/amazon-s3-change-file-download-name/2612795#2612795
Thanks
Similar think is possible at GCS:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/21026132/google-cloud-storage-download-a-file-with-a-different-name
Similar thing is possible with S3:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2611432/amazon-s3-change-file-download-name/2612795#2612795
Thanks
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
I see, thanks for clarifying. Dropbox unfortunately doesn't offer an option for setting the download name like that.
- Oh, I had thought that DROPBOX allows passing custom-disposition attributes i.e name with in headers for downloading the file with any name required. It was required for my one of the important project that was the part of Ruby On Rails ActiveStorage module. It will create big problem for us because we don’t want to save real file name there at storage providers, we want to keep the real name in our database. We are just using some random unique number for the file names.
At the moment, we are using AWS S3, GCS and AZURE storage providers for storing and delivery files with Rails ActiveStorage.
We thought of using Dropbox too but it’s one the key feature for the security of using content-disposition headers to download file with any name not supported by dropbox.
Is there any chances to develop it ? I can help as well. It’s one of the important key feature that will be widely be useful for bulk of developer whoever using dropbox and want to use custom-disposition headers. And will also help Rails Community as we want to use dropbox as a ActiveStorage storage provider :) I am happy to discuss more.
Thanks,
Ashish Prajapati
CEO, Clecotech | Rails Contributor- Greg-DB
I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if or when that might be implemented though, so I recommend trying to accomplish this locally instead.
Do you know when this feature will be available?
- Greg-DB
spotloader This feature request was filed with the team, but I don't see any plans to implement it currently.
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