Suggestion: Ability to rename page resources intended for download

feature
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TL;DR
Custom filename for page resources

---
title: "Kushaqua-Mud Pond"
...
resources:
- name: 'gpx'
  src: 'assets/kushaqua-mudpond.gpx'  #local name, easy
  filename: ':siteName - :pageTitle.gpx' #Download name, polished, distinct
---
body

Right now hugo serves any page resources as they are named on the server. Makes sense, but just like it can generate alternate image URLs when resizing, I would like alternate filenames for resources.

Use Case:

  • My site logs motorcycle rides
  • each ride (a page) has a gpx file, and preview image, and header image
  • users download the gpx to import into their app of choice

Now because of the structure of the site, the files dont need long names to knjow what they are.
/blog/ride name/assets/route.gpx

But if a user downloads a few rides, they’ll have route, route(1), etc, without know what is what.

Sure, yes I know I could just give each file a full name, but I would love to be able to use codes like
<Site Name> - <Ride Name>.gpx similar to how :counter is available to frontmatter today.

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use HTML5 and set the download attrib in the links!

samples:

<a href="path/to/file" download="renamed.txt">Download</a>
<a href="downloads/export.xlsx" download="Data-Export.xlsx">Download Export</a>
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Perfect, thank you. I wasn’t aware of a way to set this from html without modifying server headers.

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