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dethier1958
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Error -1017 "cannot parse response"

I am getting an error code -1017 "cannot parse request" from my app when it tries to download a file from Dropbox. This code has not changed for a while and has worked without trouble. I use the same...
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dethier1958's avatar
dethier1958
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

It seems that the -1017 error is coming from iOS. There is an error code, kCFURLErrorCannotParseResponse = -1017, in the SDK. So I will take a look at how I'm doing things and see if I can figure it out. 

 

One question: What should the content-type be for the download request? There is nothing in the API example. I'm wondering if leaving that out may be causing iOS to guess wrong and choke on the request, throwing that error.

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