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newtgu
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5 years ago

ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT

hi, as a developer, I want to creat a temporary link to download content in dropbox, and I use code like this: DbxRequestConfig config = DbxRequestConfig.newBuilder("dropbox/java-tutorial").build...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

Thanks for following up. I'm glad to hear you tracked this down.

 

The "#" is a character for identifying the beginning of the "fragment" portion in a URI. It's a valid part of a URL, but it sounds like your HTTPS client isn't handling it properly. It's not strictly needed in this case though so you can remove it in your code to work around that. In any case, the Dropbox API spec doesn't guarantee its presence or absence, so I can't promise if it will always be included or not. I recommend making sure your code can handle either case.

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

Update: to help accommodate clients with this issue who can't apply a fix client-side, we're no longer returning the "#" at the end of these links.

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