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Hi!
I am uploading files via the temporarily upload links generated via the /get_temporary_upload_link call. This all works fine, but the POST upload call to the generated upload link (e.g. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/apitul/1/bNi....) is terminated for files larger than a certain limit.
> POST /apitul/1/bNi.... HTTP/1.1 Host: dl.dropboxusercontent.com Accept: */* Content-Length: 536871142 Expect: 100-continue Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=------------------------b315544e35df5ae3 < HTTP/1.1 413 Request Entity Too Large < Server: nginx < Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 10:10:15 GMT < Content-Type: text/html < Content-Length: 25658 < Connection: close < ETag: "5c816ae0-643a" < X-Dropbox-Request-Id: 9600532cf40be9d1ae39f8cdd6182848 < X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex < Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000; includeSubDomains < * Closing connection 0
This test-file-200MB works fine but this larger test-file-512MB isn't working. The receiving Dropbox account has enough space available to store the large file.
Are there any uploads limits? If there are limits, is there another way to upload files to upload large files via the API without the need of an authorization token?
I appreciate if anyone can help me out with this issue.
Cheers!
+1 on this feature request. My product currently supports uploading media files to Google Drive and Google Photos with a temp link, which works great for large files. It's a bit disappointing that this isn't possible with the Dropbox API due to the small file size limit, but hopefully this feature request gets a higher priority if more people need this.
Thanks.
@raRaRa Thanks for the additional feedback and context!
Has a decision been made regarding this?
@Kirk Schneider No, unfortunately I don't have an update on this request.
I'd also like to put my support behind letting larger files be uploaded through a temporary upload link. Perhaps there are restrictions in place that prevent Dropbox from raising the file upload limit, in which case I would suggest creating another endpoint similar to upload_session and its associated functions, but using the temporary upload link instead of authorization.
@MARPAT Thanks for the feedback!
hello, will you have any decision made regarding the length of the file? I am starting a new project and I require this functionality but for files larger than 15GB
@Matias_FAC No, I don't have an update on this request.
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