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The /upload behavior has been changed ?
Recently, we received many feedbacks from our product users that the filename (use /upload) has become garbled. We found the "path" decode behavior might be changed by dropbox server.
For Example:...
There was a change on our server stack that affected how we handled HTTP headers without proper encoding. That resulted in malformed file paths/names. We've reverted that change, so that should be working again, but please make sure your headers get encoded properly.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThanks for the report! We'll look into whether something changed, but note that whenever you supply non-ASCII characters in HTTP headers, such as for the /upload endpoint, you should first encode them. We have documentation on this here:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/json-encoding
For example, you can see how this is done by the API v2 Explorer: (be sure to click "Show Code")
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-api-v2-explorer/#files_upload
- Greg-DB
This should be working again.
However, please note that sending non-ASCII characters in HTTP headers is not officially supported, so please make sure to encode them as documented.
We would follow the documentation,
but the example request I stated works well for a long time (at least a year) ,
Have you changed the behavior recently?
- Greg-DB
There was a change on our server stack that affected how we handled HTTP headers without proper encoding. That resulted in malformed file paths/names. We've reverted that change, so that should be working again, but please make sure your headers get encoded properly.
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