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overlookmotel
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

API to get content hash of shared file link

Hi.   Is there an API endpoint to get the content hash of a file received as a shared link?   Where the shared link is to a folder, it's possible with:   sharing/get_shared_link_metadata { "url...
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overlookmotel
Explorer | Level 3
5 years ago

Thanks Greg.

 

It would be very valuable to be able to retrieve this information from the API. As I mentioned, currently we have to download everything twice and hash-check the two copies against each other to ensure no corruption, which is waste of bandwidth on both sides.

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

Thanks for following up with the additional feedback.

 

By the way though, since Dropbox enforces TLS (i.e., it will redirect any http:// shared link URLs to https://), I believe you can technically rely on TLS to ensure integrity of the download against any corruption in transit. The TLS specification states:

The primary goal of the TLS Protocol is to provide privacy and data integrity between two communicating applications.
The connection is reliable. Message transport includes a message integrity check using a keyed MAC.

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