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pakk4
New member | Level 2
10 months ago

Error 404 when trying to get refresh token using CURL C++

Hello, I am currently trying to get the refresh token for my scoped app using CURL C++ but I am just getting error 404 from the buffer.

 

Here is my code:

 

void get_refresh_token()
{
	CURL* curl = curl_easy_init();

	if (curl)
	{
		struct curl_slist* header_list = 0;

		header_list = curl_slist_append(header_list, "Authorization: Basic <APP_KEY>:<APP_SECRET>");
		header_list = curl_slist_append(header_list, "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
		header_list = curl_slist_append(header_list, "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"code\":\"/<ACCESS_CODE>\",\"grant_type\": \"authorization_code\"}");

        std::string buffer;

		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, write_callback);
	    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, &buffer);
		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, header_list);
		curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "https://api.dropboxapi.com/oauth2/token");

		CURLcode result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
		curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
	}

	curl_global_cleanup();
}

 

 

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

  • Based on this code, it looks like you're not formatting this HTTP request correctly:

    • Make sure you're using the POST method (i.e., not GET)
    • Send the parameters as application/x-www-form-urlencoded data in the request body, not as JSON in a Dropbox-API-Arg header
    • When sending the app key/secret in the Authorization header, be sure to encode them with base64 encoding

    Please refer to the /oauth2/token documentation here for information on how to configure this request.

  • Hi pakk4,

    Before trying to do something read carefully all relevant documents (i.e at least curllib and Dropbox API documentation), something you skipped as seems. 🙋

    In addition to what Greg said, be careful not to pass unsupported types (don't rely on C++ type checking since libcurl is NOT C++, but a clear C library, so wont receive error or warning). By default (i.e. not explicitly changed) data type is supposed to be a pointer to FILE, not something else!

    Some pseudocode follows:

     

     

    const char* constexpr oauth2_token = "https://api.dropboxapi.com/oauth2/token";
    
    void somefunc() {
      auto callback = [](char *ptr, size_t size, size_t nmemb, void *userdata) -> size_t {
        std::string& dataBuf = *(std::string*)userdata;
        dataBuf.append(ptr, size*nmemb);
        return size*nmemb;
      };
      CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
      if (curl) {
        std::string dataBuf;
        std::string body("grant_type=authorization_code&code=");
        body += "<your access code>";
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, oauth2_token);
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, body.c_str());
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "<APP_KEY>:<APP_SECRET>");
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, callback);
        curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_WRITEDATA, (void*)&dataBuf);
        CURLcode res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
        curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
        
        // ... do whatever you want with your result here.
      }
    }

     

     

    Adapt it to your needs.

    Good luck.

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