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jmsalvador
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9 years ago

Upload a file via wininet with a POST

Hi Team, we are using the Dropbox REST API with OAuth2. When attempting to upload a file I don't know where to put the file contents using the wininet for http way.   In the docs there is just...
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Greg-DB
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9 years ago

The /2/files/upload endpoint is a "content-upload" style endpoint, so it does expect the file data for the upload in the request body. That is what curl's "--data-binary" does. (I.e., in the example, that's how you specify what data or file curl should use for the request body.)

 

I can't offer support for and don't have a sample for WinINet/HttpSendRequest specifically unfortunately though, so you'll need to refer to the documentation for that for instructions on how to configure a request using that with the desired data in the body.

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