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Adam S.66
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10 years ago

Managing sensitive files with a server.

My friend is a lawyer. His clients submit documents to him through Dropbox. They are sensitive legal documents. He asked if there was some way that I could build a website (web app) that will manage ...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

It is possible to upload a file to a Dropbox from the client, in this case the web browser using the JavaScript SDK (as well as get information about files, etc). As noted earlier, the concern is that in that scenario, the access token is exposed to the client, so this would only be safe if the end-user is only and always the doctor.

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