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jeji
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

API get_metadata returns 429 text/html

Recently we've been getting text/html 429 responses from the get_metadata endpoint, when we specify Accept: application/json header.   Response: {:request=>{:url=>"https://api.dropboxapi.co...
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    Greg-DB
    5 years ago

    To follow up here, the team confirmed that they found and resolved the issue with the excessive 429 responses with HTML bodies as of late Friday. Apologies for the inconvenience. 

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