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SephDragoon
Explorer | Level 4
10 years ago

Dropbox API v2 for Second Life

Update (01/14/2019): Finally back to trying to use this code. A resolution was seemingly made, but not fully implemented. I am able to access the API now, but I still cannot use file/download. I have...
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OzLinden
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

I'm afraid that there's no way for us to modify Second Life to allow anything but a text-based content type.

I'm not clear on how to test the Dropbox API... is it true that if I upload something as text/plain I can only get it back as application/octet-stream? That doesn't seem very useful...

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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

OzLinden If you want to test the Dropbox API, I have a few examples in this comment from earlier in the thread that show use of the /2/files/download endpoint. The API v2 Explorer can be useful for testing/prototyping calls like this. 

In any case, the /2/files/download endpoint does return "application/octet-stream" as the response's Content-Type for any type of file.

SephDragoon I'm glad to hear you may have found a workaround!

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    SephDragoon
    Explorer | Level 4
    7 years ago
    I would not consider it a solution, but I am able to get the data back out. Since upload works as is, I can still use drop box, but I will be relying less heavily on it. A two step process for every data lookup isn't ideal.

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