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lucasromeiro
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

Access and file upload using command line (RAW socket)

Hello everyone. I am trying to login and upar a file in the dropbox using command line, (RAW socket). I am having difficulty understanding how to do it, because I always get error from my commands....
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lucasromeiro's avatar
lucasromeiro
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

Hello chirstius

Thanks for helping me!
I think you understood what I need.
I'm still saying.
I'm going through parts ...

First I tried to make the GET using the pattern I passed above.
But it still does not work ...

When I use the terminal / command line to send the GET, I have no response ...

Look below the commands I sent:

Server: www.dropbox.com
Door: 443 or 80

1:

GET /oauth2/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=g0xkpmfu025XXXX/ HTTP/1.1
Host: dropbox.com

2:

GET /oauth2/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=g0xkpmfu025XXXX/ HTTP/1.1
Host: dropbox.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Accept: application/octet-stream
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

 


Test these 2 formats, in both I got no other server response, neither error, nor success ...

What could it be?

I did not succeed in anything, because I could not do it ...

Thank you very much for your help !!

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chirstius
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7 years ago

lucasromeiro,

 

That GET request needs to be made from a browser. You can script launching the system browser on your device and pointing it to the generated URL which will make a simple GET request by default. I should have been more clear on that in my previous response.

 

Have you tried just pasting your URL into a browser to see if it's working at all? I'd start there to make sure it's well-formed and that Dropbox responds with a proper authentication window. Then you can look at how to script launching the browser to open that URL.

 

-Chuck

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