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istvanzk
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2 months ago
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Problem accessing Dropbox API from an embedded device

I’m using a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 board programmed with Adafruit CircuitPython 9.2.7. I have written a very lite “SDK” to be able to issue requests to Dropbox API (V2) for a limited number of ope...
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istvanzk
Helpful | Level 6
2 months ago

UPDATE:
I have now done the test on a host/dev machine (Python 3.12) using the original adafruit_requests implementation and my custom Dropbox API implementation for CircuitPython. It runs as expected, no errors, no timeouts.
This means the delay 'fix' I came to use when running on the XIAO board is needed due to some Dropbox API server behaviour. Perhaps something to do with the SSL. It's more and more strange, to me at least...

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