redirect_to or send_file and AWS S3

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi,

I store files on S3 as the id of the file in my appliction. IE my file with id 20 will be stored on S3 as 20. When I download the file I want to look up the file name in the database and then pass it off to the user. Is there any way I can use redirect_to and pass the S3 url and then give it the filename, so the user doesn't get 20.

Does this make sense?

Thanks,

David

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Yes: set the Content-Disposition header when you upload to S3.

jeremy

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Jeremy Kemper wrote:

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The URL ends in 20, yes, but Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="mypicture.jpg" tells the browser to download a file named mypicture.jpg.

Do some googling on the topic and you'll find many others with the same scenario and solution.

jeremy