Problem downloading file using Dropbox-provided URL

Hi HairyWombat,

On my side it works as expected:

curl -L https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzv989hz5mazhqw/ReplacementDatabase.dbf?dl=1 > Test1.dbf
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100    17    0    17    0     0      2      0 --:--:--  0:00:06 --:--:--     4
100   363  100   363    0     0     52      0  0:00:06  0:00:06 --:--:--    52
100  671k  100  671k    0     0  68064      0  0:00:10  0:00:10 --:--:--  267k

As expected, there are 3 transactions - 2 redirections and the last one is actual download. You can try verbose output (flag v) for more info:

curl -Lv https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzv989hz5mazhqw/ReplacementDatabase.dbf?dl=1 > Test1.dbf

Here - in the detailed output, you should be able see what's going wrong on your side.

Good luck.

Add: A trick code that works for me:

namespace Dropbox
{
  using System;
  using System.IO;
  using System.Net;
  
   internal class Program
   {
      static void Main(string[] args)
      {
         if (args.Length != 1) {
           Console.WriteLine(
             "Expected one Dropbox URL as a single command parameter!");
           return;
         }
         //"https://www.dropbox.com/s/fzv989hz5mazhqw/ReplacementDatabase.dbf?dl=1";
         string webUrl = args[0];
         var request = WebRequest.Create(webUrl);
         var response = request.GetResponse();
         var ContentDisposition = response.Headers["Content-Disposition"];
         var dispositions = ContentDisposition.Split(';');
         string fileName = "Test.bin"; // default name
         string disposeName = "filename";
         var disposeLength = disposeName.Length;
         for(int i = 0; i < dispositions.Length; ++i) {
           var disposition = dispositions[i].Trim();
           if (string.Compare(disposition, 0,
                              disposeName, 0, disposeLength, true) == 0) {
              if (string.Compare(disposition, disposeLength, "=\"", 0, 2) == 0
                && disposition[disposition.Length-1] == '"')
                fileName = disposition.Substring(disposeLength + 2,
                              disposition.Length - disposeLength - 3);
              else if (string.Compare(disposition, disposeLength,
                                      "*=UTF-8''", 0, 9) == 0)
                fileName = disposition.Substring(disposeLength + 9);
           }
         }
         Console.WriteLine("fileName: " + fileName);
         var ContentLength = response.ContentLength;
         Console.WriteLine("ContentLength: " + ContentLength);
         FileStream fs = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.Create,
                                        FileAccess.Write);
         int bufLength = Math.Min((int)ContentLength, 0x10000);
         var buffer = new byte[bufLength];
         var readStream = response.GetResponseStream();
         int readed = readStream.Read(buffer, 0, bufLength);
         int consumed = 0;
         while(readed > 0) {
           consumed += readed;
           fs.Write(buffer, 0, readed);
           readed = readStream.Read(buffer, 0, bufLength);
         }
         readStream.Close();
         fs.Close();
         Console.WriteLine("Downloaded: " + consumed);
      }
   }
}