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lovin a.'s avatar
lovin a.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

Authenticate using username/password in java

can anybody tell me how to authenticate via dropbox username password in my desktop application.
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lovin a.'s avatar
lovin a.
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

ohh this is 3legged flow...
Dropbox dnt support "4.3 Resource Owner Password Credentials Grant" ??
Oauth2 specs: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-1.3.3
POST /token HTTP/1.1
Host: server.example.com
Authorization: Basic czZCaGRSa3F0MzpnWDFmQmF0M2JW
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

 grant_type=password&username=johndoe&password=A3ddj3w

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