[Python] Why is the Download Filename in Chrome is different than what is in the actual...

So the code it

return send_file(
io.BytesIO(docorrection.text.encode()),
mimetype = 'text/csv',
as_attachment=True,
download_name='corrected_addresses_'+formatted_time+'.csv',
cache_timeout= 0
)


Which in the headers it states

cache-control public, max-age=0 connection close content-disposition attachment; filename=corrected_addresses_2025_08_10_18_10_16.csv content-length 127 content-type text/csv; charset=utf-8 date Sun, 10 Aug 2025 22:10:16 GMT expires 0 pragma no-cache
​

however the downloaded file is always corrected_addresses.txt which was what it was the first time I did it before I changed the code.... and yes I restarted the FLASK app..

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