Get file name from headers with DownloadManager in Android
In case anyone want an implementation of doing a HEAD request to get the filename:
class GetFileName extends AsyncTask<String, Integer, String>
{
protected String doInBackground(String... urls)
{
URL url;
String filename = null;
try {
url = new URL(urls[0]);
String cookie = CookieManager.getInstance().getCookie(urls[0]);
HttpURLConnection con = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
con.setRequestProperty("Cookie", cookie);
con.setRequestMethod("HEAD");
con.setInstanceFollowRedirects(false);
con.connect();
String content = con.getHeaderField("Content-Disposition");
String contentSplit[] = content.split("filename=");
filename = contentSplit[1].replace("filename=", "").replace("\"", "").trim();
} catch (MalformedURLException e1) {
e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
}
return filename;
}
@Override
protected void onPreExecute() {
super.onPreExecute();
}
@Override
protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
}
}
Small tip, there is a nice helper method in Android
URLUtil.guessFileName(url, contentDisposition, contentType);
So after completing the call to the server, getting the contenttype and contentDisposition from the Headers this will try and find the filename from the information.