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qpo
12 months agoNew member | Level 1
AuthError 'invalid_access_token' with Python SDK after Token Refresh
Dear Dropbox Developer Team, I have been using the Dropbox API with your Python SDK for approximately four years without any issues. However, since November 25th or December 1st, I started encounter...
- 12 months ago
I see our messages just crossed, but yes, it sounds like that's the issue. The access tokens can certainly be longer than 255 characters, and you may have only recently started receiving access tokens of that length, so a database limit like that would cause the issue.
qpo
12 months agoNew member | Level 1
Only after posting this, I had an idea—could the issue be related to token length? It seems that the token length may have changed recently, and I suspect it might no longer fit into my database's varchar(255) column.
If I do not update this thread, it can be treated as solved by increasing the size of the field that stores tokens.
- Greg-DB12 months ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
I see our messages just crossed, but yes, it sounds like that's the issue. The access tokens can certainly be longer than 255 characters, and you may have only recently started receiving access tokens of that length, so a database limit like that would cause the issue.
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