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10 years ago

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I am using angularJs with webapi and now i want to upload a file on dropbox after login in my webproject on click of a upload button.I have made an api to go the login page of dropbox and after login...

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Greg-DB

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10 years ago

[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33910808/xmlhttprequest-cannot-load-http-localhost3371-api-accounts-connectdropdown ]

It looks like you're trying to redirect the user via a CORS request, which isn't allowed on www.dropbox.com. You'll need to send the redirect on a normal page load, or construct or pass down the URL itself, and then trigger the redirect locally.

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