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Vladimir K.2's avatar
Vladimir K.2
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

HTTP API V2 download range request: strange behaviour

Hi! I'll appreciate any help. Thank you! I'm trying to download file by chunks. URL: https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download File size: 1200 bytes First time (after creation in dropbo...
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Vladimir K.2's avatar
Vladimir K.2
New member | Level 1
10 years ago

Hooray! Local caching was the reason. All I needed to do is to create custom NSURLSession with the default configuration and change its caching policy to NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData. Now everything works fine. Thanks for trying to help me :)

NSURLSessionConfiguration *configuration = [NSURLSessionConfiguration defaultSessionConfiguration];
configuration.requestCachePolicy = NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringLocalCacheData;
NSURLSession *session = [NSURLSession sessionWithConfiguration:configuration];

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