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bolddp
Helpful | Level 5
4 years ago

HEAD request to get Content-Type of shared file no longer working

For a few years now, I've been able to use HEAD requests from my web page to verify that a Dropbox link that a user provides points to a "Content-Type: video/mp4" file   All of a sudden I get the...
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frebours
New member | Level 2
4 years ago

Hello @Greg-DB,

 

Do you have any update on this issue?

Is there a plan to fix it on your side and by when?

Thanks.

 

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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

frebours This is still open with engineering, but I don't have an update or timeline to share. I'll follow up here once I have any news.

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    usman61578
    New member | Level 2
    2 years ago

    Same issues while I'm getting content-length of the file from the direct download link but it's not working, When I try with the Google Drive direct download link it gives all headers data I think because they accept "access-control-allow-methods" to "GET, HEAD, OPTIONS". Maybe the "Head" method is not allowed in Dropbox for file HTTP requests.

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