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FSUInnovation
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6 years ago
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App Code and App Secret Input php curl

When I add the required app code and app secret for the 0auth2/token curl, should it be placed in the http header, or in the curlopt_postfields setopt? If it goes in the http header, should it be a s...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    6 years ago

    When calling /oauth2/token, you can actually pass the app key and secret either as 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' (not JSON) POST parameters, or in the place of the username and password, respectively, in "HTTP basic authentication", that is, in the "Authorization" header. You can find more information on that in the /oauth2/token documentation:

    https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#oauth2-token

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FSUInnovation
Explorer | Level 4
6 years ago

So, I would have a element in my httpheader array that looks like "Authorization: " . $appkey . ":" . $appsecret where the appkey colon appsecret are base 64 encoded? The element I have now is a utf8 encoded $appkey . ":" . $appsecret without "Authorization:" to the left of the string.

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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

I see you opened a new thread for this with more information so I'll follow up with you there.

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