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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...
When I do the request, instead of getting the file data I get this:
<html>
<head><title>Found</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Found</h1>
<p>The resource was found at <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/content_link/blahblahblah?dl=1">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/content_link/blahblahblah?dl=1</a>;
you should be redirected automatically.
<!-- --></p>
<hr noshade>
<div align="right">WSGI Server</div>
</body>
</html>
I'm going to try parsing this response and pulling out the link and running the GET again. It just seems that this would be a common enough task that it would be more straight forward than that.
For the record, I read the documentation which is why I know to use ?dl=1. I also tried ?raw=1, and I tried adding them both. None of these give me the file.
If this sheds some light on the problem, I am using network.request from Corona SDK. Supposedly this handles redirects. Also, I have tried using short_url = true and short_url = false. I found out that it needs to be "false" because the short_url provided by your system includes ?dl=0.
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