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hardik-sanghavi-TOT
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4 years ago

Dropbox media can't be access by azure blob

Hi All,   I have implemented the copy of the dropbox media to azure blob storage via URL.  Some days ago it was working properly, but right now I am getting the 500 error code. So do we need to cha...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

Update: in order to temporarily accommodate clients that don’t properly support automatically handling “Transfer-Encoding: chunked”, we’re temporarily rolling back this change, so that these links will no longer use “Transfer-Encoding: chunked” and will instead return “Content-Length” on HTTP/1.1. We will begin rolling that out starting around 2/17. That will be in place until around 3/1. At that point, we will begin using “Transfer-Encoding: chunked” and no longer returning “Content-Length” on HTTP/1.1 again.


Going forward, please ensure that your clients are able to automatically handle both chunked encoding and non-chunked encoding automatically.

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hardik-sanghavi-TOT
Explorer | Level 3
4 years ago

Greg-DB  - Thanks for Inform. I have a question when I start to download the media by ourselves to prevent this problem in the future.

 

Currently, we get the X-Dropbox-Content-Length in the header of the Head methods. So can you just inform us that header will be as it is in the future or it will be changed? If we get this type of header then we can download media in chunks with that length. Let me know if you want something from my side.

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    Greg-DB
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    4 years ago

    The "X-Dropbox-Content-Length" header is not part of the HTTP spec and is not officially documented by Dropbox, so we can't recommend assuming that will always be present. I'm sending this along as a request to offer a guarantee on that, but I can't promise if that will be done.

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    hardik-sanghavi-TOT
    Explorer | Level 3
    4 years ago

    Got it. If possible if dropbox sends any header related to content length for the Head request then it will be good for all developers who try to download the dropbox media in chunks.

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