krmaxwell / maltrieve

A tool to retrieve malware directly from the source for security researchers.
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Feature request: maintain original file extension #145

Open eldraco opened 9 years ago

eldraco commented 9 years ago

When the archives are downloaded, it would be nice to maintain the original file extension, so it is easier to use them later.

krmaxwell commented 9 years ago

So this is an interesting issue and I'm certainly willing to listen to other reasoning and viewpoints. Here's the background behind the original design (which, again, is always subject to review).

However, to re-iterate, if there is a good reason to change this design, or a good way to do it that achieves all the appropriate goals, then we could do that. How would maintaining the original extension help?