TODO: consider file name from the redirected URL with -O ?

It isn't easily solved, but with some thinking someone could probably
come up with a working approach?

Closes #1241
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18.14 --fail without --location should treat 3xx as a failure
18.15 --retry should resume
18.16 send only part of --data
18.17 consider file name from the redirected URL with -O ?
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See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1200
18.17 consider file name from the redirected URL with -O ?
When a user gives a URL and uses -O, and curl follows a redirect to a new
URL, the file name is not extracted and used from the newly redirected-to URL
even if the new URL may have a much more sensible file name.
This is clearly documented and helps for security since there's no surprise
to users which file name that might get overwritten. But maybe a new option
could allow for this or maybe -J should imply such a treatment as well as -J
already allows for the server to decide what file name to use so it already
provides the "may overwrite any file" risk.
This is extra tricky if the original URL has no file name part at all since
then the current code path will error out with an error message, and we can't
*know* already at that point if curl will be redirected to a URL that has a
file name...
See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/1241
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