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andrejpet
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Access token generated with refresh token got permissions revoked

As per the dropbox offline flow, I've set up a flow where I've generated a refresh token after the owner of the dropbox (me)  - Generated an access code using this URL https://www.dropbox.com/oauth...
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Здравко
Legendary | Level 20
3 years ago

Hi andrejpet,

I suspect, you're missing some details of how refresh token is used. Take a look on the discussion here for a detail ed example. Just don't forget the refresh itself; owning the refresh token is NOT enough!

Good luck.

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andrejpet
Explorer | Level 4
3 years ago

Здравко 
I just read the info in the link you sent me and from what I've understood it's exactly the same as my explanation.
I am using a refresh token to generate an access token.
Then the access token is used for auth.

This happens on each request to dropbox. 
1. Generate access token with refresh token
2. Perform API call with with access token

The problem I had is that after a given period of time the access token that was generated by a refresh token had no permissions.
This is my issue.

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