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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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De L.1
Collaborator | Level 9
11 years ago

My app just does the API call and redirects the user to the URL from the JSON response. Noting fancy actually...

However, I also noticed that it isn't possible to the ?raw=1 or ?dl=1 (render a file or force a Save as) parameter in those new URLs via the old /media URLs. Is that true?

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