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bspindia
3 years agoHelpful | Level 7
legacy token
my token is expiring while making api calls and getting unauthorised error due to short live tokens, how to generate unexpired token
please assist
regards,
Sikandar
- Hurray made it$ch = curl_init();curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, "grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_token=***refreshtoken******");curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, '**AppKey' . ':' . '***AppSecret*****');$headers = array();$headers[] = 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded';curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);$result = curl_exec($ch);echo $result;if (curl_errno($ch)) {echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);}curl_close($ch);
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- Здравко3 years agoLegendary | Level 20
bspindia wrote:...
again i made a location.assign("...Why "again"?! 🤔 You have already all you can get from this page (i.e. the code). What are you looking for there again? 🧐
bspindia wrote:...but got 400 error as Unexpected response_type request param value.Yes, it's normal. You haven't set 'response_type' parameter - a mandatory parameter! Here the error message can be a bit more clear (i.e. something like "missing request param", not "unexpected"), but...
- bspindia3 years agoHelpful | Level 7
means i have to make fetch with received code for token, right
- Здравко3 years agoLegendary | Level 20
bspindia wrote:means i have to make fetch with received code for token, right
Did you read the documentation? What is the call /oauth2/token, you asked about previously for? 😉
Also, take in mind the above call is used in different situations, with different params (different results, of course) - when you are getting your refresh token and when you are using this token (to get refreshed access token)! Don't forget what are you doing in any particular situation (forgetting means error).
- bspindia3 years agoHelpful | Level 7
i compress the input file image to webp using canvas,
and uploaded using token
now due to short live tokens, i am getting unauthorised error while uploading blob
hence to i need unexpired token,
now as dropbox is not giveing legacy tokens,
i have to authorize app-> generate new token with code->upload blob to dropbox with token
- Здравко3 years agoLegendary | Level 20
bspindia, don't be so lazy! Don't ask question that I just explained in my previous post above. Ok. I'll repeat again: one of the possible usage of mentioned call is access token refresh!!! Do you need such a refresh (i.e. your access token expired as explained here, for instance)?
- Greg-DB3 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
bspindia Здравко is correct; you can use a refresh token to get new short-lived access tokens when needed without having the user manually re-authorize the app each time. Please refer to the resources linked earlier in this thread for more information on that.
- bspindia3 years agoHelpful | Level 7
as per my understanding,
i got the code, and when i made a curl request from terminal window received short live token and refresh token
i should keep refresh token and request for shorl live token using refresh token using curl to make api calls,
am i right
- Здравко3 years agoLegendary | Level 20
bspindia wrote:...
i should keep refresh token and request for shorl live token using refresh token using curl to make api calls,
...
Either 'curl' or 'fetch'... Yes.
- bspindia3 years agoHelpful | Level 7
every thing is fine when run from terminal, but can you please correct paramenters, i am getting this error
{"error": "invalid_request", "error_description": "The request parameters do not match any of the supported authorization flows. Please refer to the API documentation for the correct parameters."}
$headers[]="Accept:application/json";$headers[]="Content-Type:application/json";$cl = curl_init();curl_setopt($cl, CURLOPT_POST,true);curl_setopt($cl,CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER,$headers);curl_setopt($cl,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'{"grant_type":"refresh_token"}');curl_setopt($cl,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'{"refresh_token":"****refresh_token_generated_from terminl******"}');curl_setopt($cl,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'{"****my_AppKey******":"***AppSecret*******"}');curl_setopt($cl,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);curl_setopt($cl,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,true);$clRes = curl_exec($cl);echo $clRes;curl_close($cl); - Здравко3 years agoLegendary | Level 20
bspindia wrote:...curl_setopt($cl,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,'{"****my_AppKey******":"***AppSecret*******"}');...What's this? 🤔 Why it's here? Authentication passes through BASIC authentication or passed as a independent parameter(s) (what's this post parameter that you are posting above actually 🧐). Can you point exact parameter matching in the description?
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