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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 th...
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.
Greg-DB
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Dropbox Community ModeratorNo, 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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