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Martin T.3
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

bug in get_temporary_link / special characters

Hi guys, I'm playing around with the dropbox v2 api and found a problem which I'm fear might be a bug: Whenever I call "get_temporary_link" related to a file with a special character ( like Germa...
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Martin T.3's avatar
Martin T.3
New member | Level 1
9 years ago

Sorry, but found another issue now:

The filename provided in the download popup (I assume it's part of the Content-disposition - http-header) is cropped. In case there's a blank inside the original filename, it crops the filename at the blank's position.

E.g. original filename

my_filename_got_no_blanks.pdf -> works fine, provides full name
my_filename_got blanks.pdf -> provides just "my_filename_got"

:-(

Thanks for looking into, Martin

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