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De L.1
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11 years ago

BUG - Direct link to files created via /media API call return a corrupt URL!

I noticed that direct links generated via the /media API are currently returning a corrupt URL. Not all file formats seem to be affected, but I can reproduce the issue for PDF and Office files. Ac...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

We've disabled this change for the time being. To help us investigate, can you copy an actual sample of where/how you tried to access the returned URL? Can you check if an extra ' or %27 was added at the end? (I encountered the same issue where my terminal included the ' from the end of the quoted string in the JSON when opening the URL in my browser, for example.)

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