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API v2 send HTTP "Range" request not working
Hi dropbox,
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app permission type: App folder
API version: dropbox API v2
description: HTTP request with "Range" header field not working.
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A HTTP request with "Range" header should works like:
Request:
GET /test_320x180.mp4
Range: bytes=1000-
Response:
206 Partial Content
Content-Type: video/mp4
Content-Length: 64656927
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Range: bytes 1000-64656926/*But got these:
> POST /2/files/download HTTP/1.1
> Host: content.dropboxapi.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.43.0
> Accept: */*
> Authorization: Bearer h4CFOpR9f5UAAAAAAAAnRbDUUE……
> Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path": "/test.png"}
> Range: bytes=2000-
>
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: nginx
< Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 15:39:07 GMT
< Content-Type: application/octet-stream
< Content-Length: 14659
< Connection: keep-alive
< pragma: no-cache
< cache-control: no-cache
< original-content-length: 14659
< dropbox-api-result: {"name": "test.png", "path_lower": "/test.png", "id": "id:wPJq19T.....", "client_modified": "2015-11-08T09:18:28Z", "server_modified": "2015-11-08T10:18:28Z", "rev": "1f3f632b5f", "size": 14659}
< X-Server-Response-Time: 186
< X-Dropbox-Request-Id: 4079fdd986580631468b829d8d20bebe
< X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex
<
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Can not finish my job without "Range"'s help.
Help please, thank you so much!
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- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
API v2 doesn't currently support Range Retrieval Requests, but we are planning on adding it in the future.
Thanks Gregory!
Dear Gregory!
Please don't hesitate to implement this feature :) It would be extremely helpful...
The absence of it is painful :(
Thanks in advance
- Greg-DB
Thanks for the feedback, Norbert! I'm sending it along.
Dear Gregory,
I would like to ask, when can we expect the range support for downloading? (partial download)
Now if i have for example 4 video file, and all with 500MB length, and if i want to peek into these video files to get their codec, or other metadata, i am forced to download 2GB data instead of ~2KB!!! That is insane... I can't believe it.
- Greg-DB
This is still planned, but I don't have a timeline to share right now unfortunately.
As a workaround, you can use /files (GET) on API v1 with Range Retrieval Requests, with the same OAuth 2 auth.
thanks Gregory, i will check it.
Dear Gregory!
I tested API v1, and i can download partial content which is good. Thanks.
But ... as is see API v1 is not support file access with ID. only with file path.
This is good while i have no special characters in name.
With special characters (for example: öüóőúéáűí) i got the path in encoded form. \u000
If i try to read file content for file with special \u000 encode characters in its name, i got error:
"backslash not supported." the url encoding not helps. The question is:
How can i read file content with API v1 for files with special characters in the name?
- Greg-DB
You need to URI encode the path in the URL. For example, to download a portion of a file at "/tést.txt" using curl:
curl "https://content.dropboxapi.com/1/files/auto/t%C3%A9st.txt" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
-H "Range:bytes=0-3" ah, i need to url encode the UTF8 representation of the path. it works, thanks! ;)
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