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pparkar
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5 years ago
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get_thumbnail_v2 returning invalid thumbnail

We are using 'https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_thumbnail_v2' api to fetch thumbnails of varying size  'w128h128' and 'w1024h768' . However we receive the thumbnail of size 128x128 in both t...
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    pparkar
    5 years ago

    Thanks Greg-DB! Using post works for us.

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

Thanks for sharing this! It looks like this is due to how we set the "Etag" value on these responses, causing the browser to cache the result. We'll look into it, but in the meantime, the easiest way to work around this client-side may be to use a POST instead of a GET, as that should avoid the caching anyway.

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pparkar
Helpful | Level 5
5 years ago

Thanks Greg-DB! Using post works for us.

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