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Problem to get the auth code
Hi All: I have a problem when I was trying to get the auth code. I am using WPF and tring to get the "auth-code-input" from the webpage that dropbox direct to. But the when I was using the following ...
Greg-DB
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Dropbox Community Moderator[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44961671/dropbox-api-get-the-auth-code-issue ]
I'm not sure I understand your question, but it sounds like you may be trying to query the authorization code out of the HTML of the page after the user authorizes your app on /oauth2/authorize.
You shouldn't try to retrieve the authorization code that way, as that page is subject to change. If you want to get the authorization code programmatically, you should instead supply a redirect URI and get it from the URL parameter itself. You can find more information on how this works here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#oauth2-authorize
I'm not sure I understand your question, but it sounds like you may be trying to query the authorization code out of the HTML of the page after the user authorizes your app on /oauth2/authorize.
You shouldn't try to retrieve the authorization code that way, as that page is subject to change. If you want to get the authorization code programmatically, you should instead supply a redirect URI and get it from the URL parameter itself. You can find more information on how this works here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#oauth2-authorize
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