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save_url endpoint
Hi,
I really would like to use the save_url endpoint to save user created data from a server to the user's dropbox account.
Alas, I can't. In my case, and I am sure in many other applications too, access to the user data at the specified url requires inclusion of an authorization header in the GET request.
The current save_url parameters contain only destination pathname and origin url.
It would be nice to have an optional additional field in the parameters for the save_url enpoint that specifies the authorization header to include in the GET request.
Something like:
"authorization_header_to_include": "Authorization: urlspecificbearer some_access_token",
The value of the "authorization_header_to_include" field would then literally be included in the GET request header.
3 Replies
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Thanks for the post! I'm sending this along as a feature request.
I can't make any promises as to if or when that would be added though, so if you control the resource host, as a workaround you can instead generate URLs that contain random, unguessable tokens, and/or that are time-limited which you would then supply to Dropbox. Thanks Greg,
What in addition would be REALLY great if there were also an optional "url_method" member with the possible values GET (default), PUT and POST. That would make the save_url endpoint a great feature to save and restore server based user data to DropBox.
- Greg-DBThanks! I'll send that request along too.
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