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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...
I'm pretty sure this is a problem with Apple's iOS SDK and how they handle POST requests with no content. I think the error was triggered before anything was even sent to your servers. I am planning on further playing with this to see if I can narrow things down more. I may continue using GET for now since that has worked perfectly for me.
If I did a POST and sent some dummy content (to make iOS happy) would Dropbox simply ignore it, since it was not expected? I may try sending an empty JSON or some dummy JSON and see if that works.
Please do notify developers though if you will no longer support GET for the download endpoint. I'd prefer to have a little warning to try to find a solution if needed.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for following up. Please do let us know if you find anything else.
Unfortunately since that endpoint does not expect anything in the request body, I believe attempting to send any such dummy data would cause the call to fail validation.
And yes, in any case that we need to intentionally make a breaking change, such as hypothetically ending support GET on these types of requests, we would send advanced notice by email.
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