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ram s.3
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10 years ago

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...
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Greg-DB
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10 years ago

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

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