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DropD
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Dropbox not allowing head (header requests). Error 405

Hi all, after a bit of work, Dropbox is working now with either dl=1 or raw=1. Refer to my last article below:   https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/View-download-and-export/Need-jpg-not-jpeg/m-p/67462...
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DropD
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Jay, to be fair, the Shared links are not really working as intended. Remember that we have to manipulate the extension to force it to work, i.e., (dl=1, or raw=1). That being said, ABE is the one venue that is not working with that hack, so, they are partially to blame also. I am a bit caught in the middle here and it's a bit frustrating. If we could just have a nice, clean image.jpg URL, we wouldn't have to go through this painful exercise.

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Jay
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3 years ago

We appreciate the feedback, currently, there isn't a way to get a direct URL to the image itself, only using the raw=1 for the image to be displayed directly on the Dropbox site.

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    DropD
    Explorer | Level 3
    3 years ago

    Jay, I knew I wasn't crazy. Here is a link I found that has a direct image link with a .jpg as the extension. (Please ignore the subject matter, I just stumbled across this).

     

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/qugodzkpaxki40f/theunborn.jpg 

     

    This is exactly what I am talking about. It is a Dropbox link with a .jpg extension. How is this user able to accomplish this?

     

     

     

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      Walter
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      3 years ago

      Hey DropD, sorry to jump in here, but I just wanted to mention that you should be able to achieve this by removing the ?dl=1 portion at the end of your shared links.

       

      Could you give it a go and let us know if it helped improve matters for you? 

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