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FoxyLoxy
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Acces thumbnail images for PDFs

I'm using Dropbox to store PDF files, and my external application needs to programmatically access a thumbnail image of the first page for each of these PDF files.   These thumbnail images need t...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

Здравко You need to use "echo -n " instead of just "echo" in this case. When you don't set "-n", echo includes a trailing newline character which will corrupt your encoded app key/secret value.

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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
4 years ago

Waww🤦🤫... that's something really stupid from my side.

But the issue is still there. 🤯 Just the response changes to "Conflict" with body:

{"error_summary": "not_found/", "error": {".tag": "not_found"}}

Despite the values are correct.  I just checked all them once again. 🤔 Using the same values I can download a thumbnail of the pointed file (values passed as headers).

If you have performed a successful query, can you post the corrected template? 🙏 (just correct the one I posted above; not only the ending new line but whatever is else too)

 

Add: Full response, if can help:

HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict
Server: envoy
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2022 21:27:34 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Cache-Control: no-cache
Vary: Dropbox-API-Arg, Authorization, Accept-Encoding
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=unspecified
Content-Security-Policy: sandbox
X-Webkit-Csp: sandbox
X-Content-Security-Policy: sandbox
Content-Security-Policy: sandbox allow-forms allow-scripts
X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex
X-Dropbox-Response-Origin: remote
X-Dropbox-Request-Id: 8302bd4020194fcfb1c64a0201ecae46
Transfer-Encoding: chunked

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