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wayne606
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7 years ago
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can't upload files with curl

I am trying to upload files with curl.  Based on community advice I think this should be correct:   curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload \     --header "Authorization: Bearer...
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago
That code looks correct, and it's working for me. (Browsing there in a browser isn't supposed to work.)

Is this the exact code you're running? Can you share the full code/output? (Just be sure to redact the access token of course.) You can also add a "-v" flag to tell curl to show verbose output.
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wayne606
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7 years ago

Intersting, now that I look at the output in more detail I see

 

< HTTP/1.1 413 Request Entity Too Large

 

This is a 2.3GB file.  Should I be uploading this in a different way?

 

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