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barry m.10's avatar
barry m.10
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10 years ago

dbx.files_upload raises ('Connection aborted.', BadStatusLine("''",))

Hi,  I am unable to upload using your Files_upload function. It fails with the following error: requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', BadStatusLine("''",))  I am on Windo...
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barry m.10's avatar
barry m.10
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

thanks for your assistance Gregory

<< As far as the BadStatusLine issue is concerned, can you try opening the file in binary mode and let me know if that doesn't help?>>

Yes, that fixed it. Who should be advised that the Python example program which is provided has a bug? Statement 21 at https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-python/blob/master/example/back-up-and-restore/backup-and-restore-example.py 

Also, could the error handling be improved? The current exception is not helpful to identify the problem.

<<the first parameter to files_upload should be "A string or file-like obj of data.">>

Yes, I had read that. The documentation could be improved IMO. The name of the function is files-upload. My error I know, but I was blind-sided by that, and was thinking that the function only dealt with files. 

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