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w. 77
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10 years ago

Please Deprecate Dropbox-Api-Arg header in V2

Content-style endpoints accept parameters in JSON format using Dropbox-Api-Arg header. But HTTP header is not for transferring arbitrary data. Some JSON writers(serializers)  produce character sequ...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

Thanks for the feedback! I'll send it along to the team.

One alternative that may help is using the "arg" query parameter as mentioned in the documentation:

"Content-style endpoints

These endpoints accept or return file content, so their arguments are instead passed as JSON in the Dropbox-Api-Arg request header, and returned JSON can be found in the Dropbox-Api-Result response header. These endpoints are available on the content.dropboxapi.com domain.

For compatibility with web browsers, content-style endpoints can also be used with HTTP GET requests. In this case, arg and authorization query parameters can be used as a replacement for those headers."

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