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vfeskov
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4 years ago

Getting Conflict 409 after successful attempts to access pwd-protected shared link

Hi, I'm using get_shared_link_metadata API with the same shared link and the correct "link_password" parameter and after multiple successful requests I start getting 409 Conflict response status and ...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

Thanks! That's helpful. We'll check on that.

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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

Thanks for your patience while the team looks into this. It sounds like what you're running in to is a per-link limit, so the team suggests

increasing the time between requests and/or adding a backoff.

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