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Makhlouf
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

Programmatically download a shared file using C++ Curl

Hi, I developped an aplication in C++ that runs on Windows. I am trying to add a feauture in the program to download a shared file from my dropbox folder. I would like the downloading to go in back...
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Makhlouf
Explorer | Level 3
6 years ago

Dear Здравко,

Yes, I tried it and got me same error (6) CURL_COUDNT_RESOLVE_HOST.

There is one observation to mention here.

If I comment the line: curl_easy_setopt (curl,CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION,1) ; the function curl_easy_perform () returns 0 which means no error, but the file size is 0 bytes.

When I decomment the above line, curl_easy_perform () returns 6. and the file size is still 0 bytes.

 

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Greg-DB
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6 years ago

Makhlouf In case it helps with your the networking troubleshooting, note that the redirects to get to the file data when using 'raw=1' or 'dl=1' also go through other Dropbox domains that look like '*.dl.dropboxusercontent.com'.

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