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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....
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 !!
chirstius
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staff
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
Hello! It worked!
I pasted the URL into the browser and it returned an authentication window!
Thank you for explaining better.
But in my case, I need to do everything by terminal / command line.
Because my solution will be all in command line (raw socket). how can I do this command line authentication?
it's possible?
Every time I use the system, will I need to do this or is it only once?
Thanks a lot for the help!
- chirstius
Once you have the token it's good until it is revoked. If you are only planning on doing this for a single user/account (you) you can probably use a generated token from your developer console (which is just a shortcut to link the app to your Dropbox directly) and avoid the OAuth 2 flow entirely. If you need this to run against multiple accounts you'll want to find a workable solution for the OAuth 2 flow and make sure you have a secure mechanism in place for storing API tokens.
-Chuck
Nice, i got it.
So I have 2 options:
- Use Token from my developer account
- Use OAuth2 and store Tokens on my device.
I want to learn how to do both ways.
Because I'll need the 2.
I have a secure location to store the tokens to use OAuth 2.
But I do not know how to authenticate the uduário through OAuth 2 through raw socket.
I need to know what to send to authenticate the user using the 2 options (Token and OAuth 2)
Can you help me? I do not know what commands I have to send for this, I believe a GET or POST. But I do not know the structure.
I need help.
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