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    <title>topic Re: Using resulting 'link' from get_temporary_link in IE new window shows about:blank in Dropbox API Support &amp; Feedback</title>
    <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/200890#M9462</link>
    <description>No update on this unfortunately.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2017 23:48:28 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2017-01-06T23:48:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Using resulting 'link' from get_temporary_link in IE new window shows about:blank</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/194218#M8756</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I'm trying to show a file (like .jpg or .pdf) in a new window of the browser.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm using Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I invoke get_temporary_link and use the resulting link as such:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp; window.open(tempLinkResults.link)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The new window first navigates to the dropbox URL (such as &lt;A href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/apitl/1/AACt...)&amp;nbsp;but" target="_blank"&gt;https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/apitl/1/AACt...)&amp;nbsp;but&lt;/A&gt; then shows about:blank.&amp;nbsp; This happens for all of the jpg &amp;amp; PDF files I've tried.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Am I doing something fundamentally wrong?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2019 09:28:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/194218#M8756</guid>
      <dc:creator>KennelLink</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-05-29T09:28:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Using resulting 'link' from get_temporary_link in IE new window shows about:blank</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/194310#M8777</link>
      <description>Thanks for the report! This is a known issue with how IE handles these links. The expected behavior is that the browser would download the file, based on the Content-Disposition header. IE doesn't seem to do so, and instead does nothing, as you mentioned.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;I'll send this along to the team, but I can't say if or when we'd be able to change this, as it's related to how the browser itself is handling this, which is out of our control. (Firefox, for example, downloads the file as expected.)</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2016 19:58:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/194310#M8777</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2016-11-14T19:58:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Using resulting 'link' from get_temporary_link in IE new window shows about:blank</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/200884#M9461</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Any update? The link obtained from the API v1 works fine (using /media) but not under the API v2 (/get_temporary_link)... we're forced to update to v2 prior June but that's a real problem under IE! Thx&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2017 23:36:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/200884#M9461</guid>
      <dc:creator>Dave Q.1</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-01-06T23:36:50Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Using resulting 'link' from get_temporary_link in IE new window shows about:blank</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/200890#M9462</link>
      <description>No update on this unfortunately.</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2017 23:48:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/200890#M9462</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-01-06T23:48:28Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Using resulting 'link' from get_temporary_link in IE new window shows about:blank</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/214209#M10956</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Is there any further update on this? &amp;nbsp;I'm experiencing the same (or a similar) issue across IE, Chrome, and Firefox. &amp;nbsp;I create a temporary URL that links to something viewable in the browser like a jpg or mp3 file. &amp;nbsp;I copy that into the URL bar and the browser always just downloads the file.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Also, assuming this is fixed, will there be a way to force downloads? &amp;nbsp;The old v1 API /media endpoint allowed putting "?dl=1" on the end of the URL to force it to download.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2017 02:09:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/214209#M10956</guid>
      <dc:creator>akreiss</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-04-01T02:09:49Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Using resulting 'link' from get_temporary_link in IE new window shows about:blank</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/214213#M10958</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I'm hoping there's a fix for this, but in the mean time I do the following:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;OL&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Invoke sharing/create_shared_link_with_settings() which of course fails if the file has already been shared&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Invoke sharing/list_shared_links() and (I personally) use the url&amp;nbsp;from the&amp;nbsp;first element in the list of links&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;LI&gt;Since the resulting URL points to the Dropbox preview page with the target file in a frame, I replace "dl=0" with "raw=1" to FINALLY get a usable URL for the file&lt;/LI&gt;
&lt;/OL&gt;
&lt;P&gt;I hope the Dropbox team realizes this is a huge endeavor just to get a temporary usable in-browser view of a file - like we used to be able to do with API v1 and it ends up poluting the shares list because I only need it temporarily and non-business accounts can't use the expiry parameter on the creating the link.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Also, some documentation of the query string arguments would be nice.&amp;nbsp; I just stumbled upon the idea of changing dl=0 to raw=1 in another thread.&amp;nbsp; I suspect that setting dl=1 would achieve the forced download you desire.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Apr 2017 03:19:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/214213#M10958</guid>
      <dc:creator>KennelLink</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-04-01T03:19:25Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Using resulting 'link' from get_temporary_link in IE new window shows about:blank</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/214385#M10981</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/377337"&gt;@akreiss&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;It sounds like you're asking for something slightly different. This thread was about an issue specific to Internet Explorer. Aside from that issue, the expected behavior is for the browser to download the file (based on the Content-Disposition response header). I'm sending this along as a feature request for you, for a way to not have these links return this Content-Disposition, but I can't make any promises.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;In any case, I don't have an update on this Internet Explorer issue right now.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/323670"&gt;@KennelLink&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Thanks for the feedback! For reference, these parameters are documented in &lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/help/201" target="_self"&gt;this help article&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Apr 2017 12:32:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/214385#M10981</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-04-03T12:32:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Using resulting 'link' from get_temporary_link in IE new window shows about:blank</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/232455#M12675</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Any update?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2017 16:05:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/232455#M12675</guid>
      <dc:creator>rami2</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-07-16T16:05:09Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Using resulting 'link' from get_temporary_link in IE new window shows about:blank</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/232598#M12687</link>
      <description>No, I don't have an update on this issue.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2017 14:46:13 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/232598#M12687</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-07-17T14:46:13Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Using resulting 'link' from get_temporary_link in IE new window shows about:blank</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/242049#M13478</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&lt;SPAN&gt;We are also now forced to migrate to API v2 and are trying to use the get_temporary_link endpoint. The links generated do not work in Internet Explorer. We would really need a resolution or work-around for this, as we serve a lot of documents on our website based on content in Dropbox.&lt;/SPAN&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2017 14:49:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/242049#M13478</guid>
      <dc:creator>fredrik80</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-09-18T14:49:56Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Using resulting 'link' from get_temporary_link in IE new window shows about:blank</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/242059#M13482</link>
      <description>I don't have an update on this unfortunately, but if you need an extension for access to API v1, please open an API ticket with the app key(s) you need an extension for:&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;A href="https://www.dropbox.com/developers/contact" target="_blank"&gt;https://www.dropbox.com/developers/contact&lt;/A&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2017 15:08:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/242059#M13482</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2017-09-18T15:08:42Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Using resulting 'link' from get_temporary_link in IE new window shows about:blank</title>
      <link>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/275627#M16474</link>
      <description>We've had our engineers working on this and the good news is the problem has been fixed. Please try again and you should find that this functionality works correctly.&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;BR /&gt;Apologies for any inconvenience this caused.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2018 15:25:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Dropbox-API-Support-Feedback/Using-resulting-link-from-get-temporary-link-in-IE-new-window/m-p/275627#M16474</guid>
      <dc:creator>Greg-DB</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2018-05-09T15:25:15Z</dc:date>
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