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Bradley_Smith
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5 years ago

OAuth options for Windows desktop apps

I notice that the Dropbox API has now officially dropped support for Internet Explorer, which means that any Windows desktop application that integrates with Dropbox is now faced with an uphill battl...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! I'll pass this along to the team to see if we can offer a simpler and more lightweight option in the future.

 

As it stands, the only official resources I can offer are the .NET SDK documentation and examples.

 

Alternatively, note that a redirect_uri isn't strictly required by the OAuth 2 flow when using 'response_type=code', so one option would be to omit that in which case the user would copy/paste the authorization code manually.

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