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Regex for Oauth 2.0 AccessToken
Hi,
I am writing a regex for the Oauth2.0 Access Token. What are the possible special characters that can occur in that token? As far as I know, it contains '-' and '_'. Am I missing any special characters?
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- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
The Dropbox API doesn't make any guarantees about the exact format of an access token like this, so we don't recommend trying to validate them using a regex.
Further, access tokens can be revoked remotely anyway, so the only way to check if an access token is actually valid is to attempt an API call with it (e.g., most developers use the account information call, since there aren't any side effects) to check if it succeeds or fails.
Hi Gregory,
Thanks for that explanation
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