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AF4
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7 years ago

Read file contents using java

I wanna preiew a file content with out downloaded using java , i tried to work with  getTemporaryLink but when iv coped this link it download the file not streaming the content in the browser. i ne...
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

The links returned by getTemporaryLink unfortunately are not meant for displaying the file in the browser, per the documentation:

this URL should not be used to display content directly in the browser

The Dropbox API doesn't offer a good way to do that, but I'll pass this along as a feature request. I can't promise if/when something like that would be implemented though.

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