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Sign-in stuck on my laptop - works perfectly on PC
Have downloaded a bunch of code updates to my laptop,which is currently connected to the same router as my PC (so minimal difference in IP address) and when I try to signin my app to Dropbox it is ju...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorSure, there's more information and sample code in the documentation for DropboxOAuth2Helper in the .NET SDK.
Hey Greg,
Ok, I've gone back and revisited the code I never got working, which was based on SimpleTest. Where I got stuck was stuff around index.html in HandleOAuth2Redirect. At the time you said it wasn't really necessary (just a page that is displayed to the user, which I don't need), and I think I have an idea now how to resolve that, however the way I did get it working in the end, following someone's blog, was using
OAuth2Response result=DropboxOAuth2Helper.ParseTokenFragment(new Uri(e.Url));
in a webview, which is way simpler (much fewer lines of code) than the way it's done in SimpleTest (ParseTokenFragment does all the heavy lifting for you). Would I be able to use that with this different approach? i.e. once I get to http.Start(), what would the next few lines of code look like if I wanted to use ParseTokenFragment instead? (and if this is indeed possible, maybe update SimpleTest to reflect this simpler approach?)
thanks,
Donald.
- Greg-DB
Using a web view for the app authorization flow is not officially supported, so I can't recommend doing so.
In any case, if you call ParseTokenFragment and it returns successfully, the return value will be a OAuth2Response. You can get the access token from OAuth2Response.AccessToken.
"Using a web view for the app authorization flow is not officially supported, so I can't recommend doing so"
Ok, I understand that. I'm asking if you can use ParseTokenFragment with a native browser (as per your recommendation), and if so what would the code to do so look like?
- Greg-DB
Yes, you can certainly use ParseTokenFragment with the native system browser flow. That's shown in the example here: https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/T_Dropbox_Api_DropboxOAuth2Helper.htm
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