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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's avatar
De L.1
Collaborator | Level 9
11 years ago

I am not sure if this is going off topic, we can also discuss it via email.

The app I created is a WordPress plugin allowing users to display their Dropbox files directly on a WordPress page without the need of shared links. Users that want to download a file, don't get their hands on a shared link, but instead the short lived url is used to download the file.

I have the same kind of plugins for Google Drive, Box and OneDrive and their API's all include a (short lived) direct download link to the file. And honestly, I think that it should be part of the Dropbox API as well. I don't see a reason why I should first download files to the apps server via the /files call before I can pass it to the user. It makes more sense to let the user download the file directly via the Dropbox servers.

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