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Writing a file via API and make it always accessible publicly (like the old Public folder)
Hi,
This is my scenario: I need to write a file in users' Dropbox using the Core API and make it accessible (sharable) publicly and for a longer period (than 4 hours). I need somehow a similar beh...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
Dropbox Community ModeratorThat's correct, CORS isn't enabled on www.dropbox.com. The parameters ( dl or raw ) are preferred, but if they don't suit your use case, one alternative is to change host from www.dropbox.com to dl.dropboxusercontent.com, that is:
to:
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/...
CORS does work on the latter host. That's not documented though, so I can't say it's officially supported.
And thanks for the feedback. I'll pass this along as a request to put the raw option directly into the /shares endpoint.
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