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karikalan
11 years agoNew member | Level 1
Windows 8 store app Dropbox get access token and upload issue
I am able to successfully login and get the request token using rest apin in Windows 8 store app. But I am getting '401 Unauthorized' error while retrieving the access token as well as trying to upl...
Steve M.
Dropbox Staff
11 years agoI see two immediate issues:
- Your
Authorizationheader on the call to/access_tokenseems to be missing the required parameteroauth_token. You seem to have it in the URL instead, which I don't think works. (I don't think you can mix parameters in the query string and in theAuthorizationheader.) - You're escaping the signature, which causes it to be invalid Base64. (It ends with
%3Dinstead of=.)
Also, I removed your app secret from your post, but others may have seen the post while it was visible, so you should consider it to be leaked.
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