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serge30
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4 years ago
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Each OAuth 2.0 re-authentication asks for user's permission

Hello,   I'm developing JS SPA which uses Dropbox as a storage. It has no backend, thus I'm using OAuth 2.0 code flow with PKCE.   According to the documentation https://developers.dropbox.com/oa...
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    Greg-DB
    4 years ago

    There isn't anything additional you should/can configure for this. Dropbox will automatically redirect through the flow when it can, but there are some exceptions. For example, it will only do so when an https:// redirect URI is supplied; it won't automatically redirect to http://. Also, if the user has linked accounts, they won't be automatically redirected, as they need to select which account to use.

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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

There isn't anything additional you should/can configure for this. Dropbox will automatically redirect through the flow when it can, but there are some exceptions. For example, it will only do so when an https:// redirect URI is supplied; it won't automatically redirect to http://. Also, if the user has linked accounts, they won't be automatically redirected, as they need to select which account to use.

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serge30
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4 years ago

Greg,

 

Oh, I run app locally on http://localhost:3000 So that's a case.

 

Thank you!

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