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ram s.3
10 years agoNew member | Level 1
POST fail, error #400, Bad HTTP “Content-Type” header
when trying to upload a file into the app folder using POST I get "Bad HTTP “Content-Type” header" error, however when trying to download a file using GET it works, the following is my POST, needless to say that I've tried all possible "Content-Type" without any success:

what is it I am missing here?
Thank you all in advance!
Best,
Ram
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- Greg-DB10 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
In your screenshot, you're setting your Content-Type header to "text/json". The error message is indicating that only "application/octet-stream" or "text/plain; charset=dropbox-cors-hack" are accepted.
- ram s.310 years agoNew member | Level 1
Thank you for your quick reply!
as I wrote in my msg, I've tried all possible "Content-Type" without any success including "application/octet-stream" or "text/plain; charset=dropbox-cors-hack"
- Greg-DB10 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Can you share screenshots for those attempts then?
- ram s.310 years agoNew member | Level 1
sure, different REST client using Firefox:

- Greg-DB10 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
The response includes the Content-Type header that the API received. In both of these additional cases, it seems "; charset=UTF-8" was appended to the Content-Type you specified, resulting in an invalid Content-Type. Firefox is known to do this.
I posted an answer here about Firefox's behavior, including some information on ways to do this properly:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33902289/using-dropbox-v2-api-from-browser
- ram s.310 years agoNew member | Level 1
Thank you, since its 3AM here I'm off to sleep now so I'll dive into it tomorrow, many thanks for your support!!!
- ram s.310 years agoNew member | Level 1
Dear Gregory,
I've used a standalone REST client instead of the browsers add ins and this works as it should, once again, thank you for your support!Best,
R.
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