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    <title>topic why is download api a post https request with null body? in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/why-is-download-api-a-post-https-request-with-null-body/m-p/507430#M25070</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi, I noticed that the download api&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download" target="_blank"&gt;https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a post&amp;nbsp;https request, but&amp;nbsp;required a null request body. And I can also download a file correctly with method "get". So I am confused why dropbox make rules like this? I does not think this way for a post request meet the rules of HTTP request.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:32:11 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>petal</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2021-03-24T08:32:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>why is download api a post https request with null body?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/why-is-download-api-a-post-https-request-with-null-body/m-p/507430#M25070</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi, I noticed that the download api&amp;nbsp;&lt;A href="https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download" target="_blank"&gt;https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download&lt;/A&gt;&amp;nbsp;is a post&amp;nbsp;https request, but&amp;nbsp;required a null request body. And I can also download a file correctly with method "get". So I am confused why dropbox make rules like this? I does not think this way for a post request meet the rules of HTTP request.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 08:32:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>petal</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-03-24T08:32:11Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: why is download api a post https request with null body?</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/why-is-download-api-a-post-https-request-with-null-body/m-p/507536#M25074</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;The&amp;nbsp;Dropbox API uses HTTPS for communication, but it is not a REST API and so does not follow the REST pattern you may be familiar with, for instance. You can find &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation" target="_self"&gt;the documentation for the&amp;nbsp;Dropbox API v2 request and response formats here&lt;/A&gt;. You may also be interested in these old &lt;A href="https://dropbox.tech/developers/limitations-of-the-get-method-in-http" target="_self"&gt;blog&lt;/A&gt; &lt;A href="https://dropbox.tech/developers/a-preview-of-the-new-dropbox-api-v2" target="_self"&gt;posts&lt;/A&gt; about the original design of API v2.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2021 14:50:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-03-24T14:50:31Z</dc:date>
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