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Mark S.115
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

file sharing app

I'm using Dropbox to back up files for my app. I want to enable users to share files that are stored on Dropbox. Currently the app gets a share link and reformats it in a way that when clicked, the a...
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Mark S.115's avatar
Mark S.115
New member | Level 1
11 years ago

I am trying to do it automatically and without having the phone open a browser. I don't really want the file saved to disk, I just want the file contents. Ideally the user gets an email that says, "Bob shared a file with you from this great app!" The person clicks the link and the app opens, downloads the file from Dropbox and opens the file.

I use the API to get a short link, I pass the short link into my app, attach the "?dl=1" to the link and use a post request to try to retrieve the data. What is returned is a bunch of what appears to be html. I admit that I'm no expert in using POST. Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong?

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