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thanasis k.
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10 years ago

authorization from a java desktop application without the need to declare any redirect url (without the need for a server-side code to handle the access token)

i have develop a JAVA desktop application and right now iam using a server-side code in apache-tomcat to make the authorization and get the access token, and everything is fine.  But my partner infor...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

For client-side apps like this, you should generally use the OAuth 2 "token" flow. You can find more information in the documentation for /oauth2/authorize:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation

For the redirect URI, you can either use a local address that your app will listen on, or if you're using an in-app browser, you can use https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/redirect_reciever, where you can pull the access token off of the URL fragment.

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