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Gustavo L.5
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10 years ago

Can't upload xlsx file to dropbox app

Hi guys, as the title says, I'm unable to upload an xlsx file, I can successfully upload other formats as xls, pdf, ppt, etc. but this gives an error in the moment I'm trying to upload it.   The ...
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Gustavo L.5
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Playing a little more with this I noticed the error is because of some "special" characters in the json sent (specifically the path of the file). So this seems like an encoding issue, when I send a file which contains an 'ó' in the name, it gives this error:

{"readyState":4,"responseText":"Error in call to API function \"files/upload\": HTTP header \"Dropbox-API-Arg\": could not decode input as JSON","status":400,"statusText":"Bad Request"}

but if I change that 'ó' by an 'o' (with no accent) it works well.

 

I've been playing with contentType parameter in the ajax call but I can't make it work, any ideas?

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