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PSMDanny
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8 years ago

Auth redirect_uri with variable in url

Hi I'm testing everything at the moment in a standard (stand alone) php file. Once everything is working I want to integrate everything in my php application. The issue (I think) is that my applicati...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
As a security feature, OAuth 2 redirect URIs must be pre-registered exactly. Variables/wildcards are not supported in Dropbox OAuth 2 redirect URIs.

What you can do instead is encode the necessary information in the 'state' parameter, and decode it as necessary after the redirect back to your app, to handle it as necessary:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#oauth2-authorize
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    PSMDanny
    Explorer | Level 3
    8 years ago

    Hi Greg,

    Thanks for your superfast support. Really appreciate it. Okay, going to play with that suggestion.

    Thanks.
    Danny

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