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Need Help ON API HTTP POST
Brand new user to DropBox API and have run into a issue trying to run an API.
I am able to get thru the Auth2 verification OK in my code and now want to just run a simple API.
So I tried with the API: https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/file_requests/count
I constructed a HTTP POST request as follows:
ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12
Dim hwrequest As Net.HttpWebRequest = Net.HttpWebRequest.Create("https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/file_requests/count")
hwrequest.UserAgent = "http_requester/0.1"
hwrequest.Timeout = 60000
hwrequest.Headers.Add(stoken) ----stoken is in JSON format
hwrequest.Method = "POST"
hwrequest.ContentType = "application/json"
Dim hwresponse As Net.HttpWebResponse = hwrequest.GetResponse()
If hwresponse.StatusCode = Net.HttpStatusCode.OK Then
Dim responseStream1 As IO.StreamReader = _
New IO.StreamReader(hwresponse.GetResponseStream())
Dim responseData1 = responseStream1.ReadToEnd()
End If
When I run this I get an error: Specified value has invalid HTTP Header characters. Parameter name: name
Now looking at the documenation it seems that the Header I added needs to be in a json format, which I did.
Question if I added the authorization as a header is it true it needs to be in JSON format.
Any help wiould be great.
No, the "Authorization" header value should not be JSON. It should be plain text of the format:
Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE
You can find an example of what a call to /2/file_requests/count would look like using curl in the documentation.
For reference, /2/file_requests/count is an "RPC" style endpoint, so any API call parameters (separate from the Authorization) it takes would be expected as JSON in the request body, not a header. Note that /2/file_requests/count in particular doesn't take any API call parameters anyway though, so you don't need to supply a request body when calling it.
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- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
No, the "Authorization" header value should not be JSON. It should be plain text of the format:
Bearer ACCESS_TOKEN_HERE
You can find an example of what a call to /2/file_requests/count would look like using curl in the documentation.
For reference, /2/file_requests/count is an "RPC" style endpoint, so any API call parameters (separate from the Authorization) it takes would be expected as JSON in the request body, not a header. Note that /2/file_requests/count in particular doesn't take any API call parameters anyway though, so you don't need to supply a request body when calling it.
Thanks so much for your help on this.. I did get it working oK.
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