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Eric B.37
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11 years ago

Migrating oauth1 to oauth2 using token_from_oauth1

I have been using Dropbox via the Sharpbox toolkit for a while.  It's based on oAuth1, so I have a database full of oAuth1 access tokens for my users. I'd like to convert to the new Dropbox API, wh...
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Greg-DB
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11 years ago

[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33700332/dropbox-migrating-oauth1-to-oauth2-using-token-from-oauth1 ]

This call needs to be signed using OAuth 1, so this blog post, specifically step 4, maybe be helpful:

https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2012/07/using-oauth-1-0-with-the-plaintext-signature-method/

In short, you need to supply all of the parameters shown there. (It's also possible to send them in URL parameters.) 

The actual spec is here if you want:

http://oauth.net/core/1.0/

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