filenames

It's common to want browsers to cache resources - JavaScript, CSS, images, etc. until there is a new version available, and then ensure that the browser fetches and caches the new version instead. One solution is to embed a version number in the resource's filename, but will placing the resources to be managed in this way in a directory with a revision number in it do the same thing? Is the whole URL to the file used as a key in the browser's cache, or is it just the filename itself and some meta-data? If my code changes from fetching /r20/example.js to /r21/example.js , can I be sure that

Here is an example of what I am trying to do: index.php <ul><?php include("list.php") ?></ul> list.php <?php if (PAGE_NAME is index.php) { //Do something } else { //Do something } ?> How can I get the name of the file that is including the list.php script (PAGE_NAME)? I have tried basename(__FILE__) , but that gives me list.php . $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"]; returns what you want zerkms If you really need to know what file the current one has been included from - this is the solution: $trace = debug_backtrace(); $from_index = false; if (isset($trace[0])) { $file = basename($trace[0]['file']); if (

I'm using the Python requests lib to get a PDF file from the web. This works fine, but I now also want the original filename. If I go to a PDF file in Firefox and click download it already has a filename defined to save the pdf. How do I get this filename? For example: import requests r = requests.get('http://www.researchgate.net/profile/M_Gotic/publication/260197848_Mater_Sci_Eng_B47_%281997%29_33/links/0c9605301e48beda0f000000.pdf') print r.headers['content-type'] # prints 'application/pdf' I checked the r.headers for anything interesting, but there's no filename in there. I was actually

I have a String that provides an absolute path to a file (including the file name). I want to get just the file's name. What is the easiest way to do this? It needs to be as general as possible as I cannot know in advance what the URL will be. I can't simply create a URL object and use getFile() - all though that would have been ideal if it was possible - as it's not necessarily an http:// prefix it could be c:/ or something similar. akarnokd new File(fileName).getName(); or int idx = fileName.replaceAll("\\\\", "/").lastIndexOf("/"); return idx >= 0 ? fileName.substring(idx + 1) : fileName;

What file extension would be most suitable when saving a Serializable object to disk? FileOutputStream fos = null; ObjectOutputStream out = null; try { fos = new FileOutputStream(filename); out = new ObjectOutputStream(fos); out.writeObject(mySerializableObject); } catch (IOException ex) { ex.printStackTrace(); } finally { IOUtils.closeQuietly(out); } ".ser" is a reasonable choice for the file suffix - http://www.file-extensions.org/ser-file-extension However, you could argue that it make little difference what suffix you use ... provided that is doesn't clash other commonly used application

We all know MATLAB provides tab-completion for filenames used as arguments in MATLAB function like importdata , imread . How do we do that for the functions we create? EDIT: Displays the files and folders in the current directory. Caution: unsupported hack here. Take a look at the file toolbox\local\TC.xml in your Matlab installation. This appears to contain the argument type mappings for tab completion. (I found this by just grepping the Matlab installation for "imread" in R2009b.) Adding this line inside the <TC> element will get you tab-completion of file names for each of its arguments.