raw.githubusercontent.com adding filename with directory for non-human-readable files

[dhalbert]

We're not sure if this behavior is old or new. Do you know?

This kind of URL:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_CircuitPlayground/main/examples/dip.wav
is causing a browser to download the file as examples_dip.wav.

The reason is that the HTTP headers are specifying examples/dip.wav as the filename:

$ curl -I https://raw.githubusercontent.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_CircuitPlayground/main/examples/dip.wav
HTTP/2 200 
...
content-disposition: attachment; filename=examples/dip.wav
...

Since the browser (Chrome or Firefox) won't create the examples directory, it changes the / to _, and downloads examples_dip.wav.

We want the user to be able to download dip.wav directly, with its original name, and have webpages with links like that. (The original URL is actually https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_CircuitPython_CircuitPlayground/raw/main/examples/dip.wav, but it redirects to raw.githubusercontent.com.)

If you happen to know this behavior is new, I'll report it as a bug. Otherwise maybe it never worked the way we thought.

[MathiasReker]

Hello. You can report the bug here: https://support.github.com/contact/bug-report