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George K.23
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10 years ago

API session expiry?

Hi everyone, I'm in the process of creating a Python app which will run on my Raspberry Pi to allow me to control a webcam via Dropbox. I have created an app and generated an access token. In my pr...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Thanks! The ConnectionError error can be caused by a number of different things, but it is just indicating there was an issue with the HTTPS connection for the API call, e.g., to due to network issues on your side, or transient server issues on our side. In any case, the right thing to do is just implement some automatic retrying to handle connection issues like this. 

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