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Saird_Kuipers
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7 years ago

Run API on internal server with http instead of https

Dear all, I developed a webbased django app locally which works perfectly fine. No I'm stuggling to run the app on the internal server. The Redirect URIs returns:' Non-local OAuth 2 redirect URIs m...
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

As a matter of security, Dropbox only allows "localhost" redirect URIs to use http://, and there isn't a setting to disable or workaround this. So, the only options would be:

  • use a "localhost" server for your http:// redirect URI for development/testing
  • use the "code" flow ("response_type=code") but omit the redirect URI entirely, so that the user has to copy/paste the authorization code manually
  • switch to https://

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