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Arne517
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8 years ago

Direct download using ?dl=1 returns html page

Hi,   I'm downloading a folder from dropbox using `curl` with the public share url, and the `dl=1` query parameter. This used to work perfectly until this morning, when it started returning a html...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

JonnyO Apologies, I'm afraid I don't quite follow. Is there something that still isn't working? If please let us know exactly how we can reproduce the issue so we can investigate. Thanks!

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JonnyO
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago
We can't reproduce the problem any longer. Our "workaround" from this morning above still works and if I try to create a new file and link now it works right away (haven't waited 30 minutes to see if it stops to work).
This morning we created a link for the file above. The link worked for about 30 minutes then we got noticed by a person that he couldn't get the file via the link. We tried and neither could we any longer!
That's when the workaround started... can't reproduce the problem any longer.

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