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Korefer87
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2 years ago

Access token is expiring every day? How can i fix it?

Hi im using an html simple Form where i ask users to upload their documentation. Everything seems the work fine but after 1 day i get an error. I generate anothe acces token and seems to work fine ag...
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Rich
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2 years ago
Korefer87 wrote:

I generate anothe acces token and seems to work fine again, but then after 1 day it fails again. How can i get an access token that will not expired or stop working?

Dropbox uses short-lived access tokens that expire after a short time (about 4 hours). You need to use a refresh token to obtain new access tokens as they expire.

 

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