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Adam L.26
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Does server close the connection once download a file over 90 minutes?

Hi,   I have a 50GB file in my dropbox but I can't download whole file with download API over a month, the connection always been closed after 90min but my download process works fine on other fi...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

HTTPS connections can time out, so to download large files, I recommend using "Range Retrieval Requests" to download in pieces. For example, issuing such a request to download the first 1000 bytes of a file using /2/files/download would look like:

 

curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer <ACCESS_TOKEN>" \
    --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"<FILE_PATH>\"}" \
    --header "Range: bytes=0-999"

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