Help understanding why values are appended to filenames

General
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#1

Summary:
I am new to using CF and I am trying to determine why values are added to file names.

Example:

  1. Goto - https://www.urologypracticejournal.com/
  2. From Menu select Journal Info -> Information for Contributors or Instructions for Authors
  3. Observe that the links have added (fingerprint values?) numbers to the PDF files
    • The file is now (ifa-1539018730483.pdf) and should be (ifa.pdf)

I appreciate any insight or information on this as it might be very simple or “its functioning as designed” could be the other option. Thanks!

#2

Dunno. That site isn’t running through Cloudflare. You’d have to ask them why that is happening.

#3

Agreed, the DNS for that URL doesn’t resolve to a Cloudflare IP, so that behavior is not Cloudflare induced (can’t see how :logo: would do that regardless).

#4

Yes, you all are correct and I did not clarify in my description that the assets to the site are delivered via the URL:

So, the true URL to the PDF is: (https://els-jbs-prod-cdn.literatumonline.com/pb/assets/raw/Health%20Advance/journals/urpr/ifa-1539018730483.pdf)

Thanks

#5

The other option I think is to set the response header Content-Disposition to use: inline; filename=" ". This will hide the appended values from the user.

#6

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