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Large uploads via /get_temporary_upload_link are terminated with '413 Request Entity Too Large'
Hi!
I am uploading files via the temporarily upload links generated via the /get_temporary_upload_link call. This all works fine, but the POST upload call to the generated upload link (e.g. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/apitul/1/bNi....) is terminated for files larger than a certain limit.
> POST /apitul/1/bNi.... HTTP/1.1 Host: dl.dropboxusercontent.com Accept: */* Content-Length: 536871142 Expect: 100-continue Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------b315544e35df5ae3 < HTTP/1.1 413 Request Entity Too Large < Server: nginx < Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:10:15 GMT < Content-Type: text/html < Content-Length: 25658 < Connection: close < ETag: "5c816ae0-643a" < X-Dropbox-Request-Id: 9600532cf40be9d1ae39f8cdd6182848 < X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex < Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains < * Closing connection 0
This test-file-200MB works fine but this larger test-file-512MB isn't working. The receiving Dropbox account has enough space available to store the large file.
Are there any uploads limits? If there are limits, is there another way to upload files to upload large files via the API without the need of an authorization token?
I appreciate if anyone can help me out with this issue.
Cheers!
Unfortunately, the links returned by get_temporary_upload_link do have a file size limit, as you found. Apologies this isn't better documented! I'll ask the team to clarify this.
There isn't an alternative though, so that does mean that in this case, to upload large files, you'd need to either give the access token to the client to perform the upload session calls client-side (which isn't recommended for untrusted clients, of course), or send all of the data to upload through your server to perform the upload session calls there.
I'll also send this along as a feature request for a 'get_temporary_upload_link'-like version of upload sessions to support uploading large files without direct access to the access token, but I can't promise if or when that would be implemented.
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Has a decision been made regarding this?
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Kirk Schneider No, unfortunately I don't have an update on this request.
I'd also like to put my support behind letting larger files be uploaded through a temporary upload link. Perhaps there are restrictions in place that prevent Dropbox from raising the file upload limit, in which case I would suggest creating another endpoint similar to upload_session and its associated functions, but using the temporary upload link instead of authorization.
hello, will you have any decision made regarding the length of the file? I am starting a new project and I require this functionality but for files larger than 15GB
- Greg-DB
Matias_FAC No, I don't have an update on this request.
Hi raRaRa ,
what's the method you use wiht Drive API to upload with temporary link, as you describe here? Didn't find any info.
Thanks!
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