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Ranjodh S.
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
Error 4xx while downloading a file through API which has second word's intials H for eg. (DX Haley)
We are using Dropbox API with Oauth 2.0 to download a file, Its giving us the Error 4xx page. The name of the file is 'DX Haley'. It happens only when the second word in the file name start with let...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
11 years agoWe've done some additional investigation on this, and to summarize:
Your respective apps/libraries are apparently not properly escaping the URI path, which results in technically invalid HTTP requests. (That is, they contain unescaped spaces in the URI.)
Our web server is somewhat forgiving of these malformed requests normally and is able to service the request, except when the unescaped space is followed by an "H", as that causes a different behavior in the web server's HTTP request parser.
The solution is to make sure your app always properly encodes the path in the URI. (This applies to more than just spaces.)
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