IE does not show dropbox thumbnail

[alkotsov]

Hi

I try to use end point get_thumbnail with correct parameters as url for image. All works properly in Firefox and Chrome. But IE 11 and 10 does not show uimage. Although in IE debug window it is shown that iage was loaded and even image itsel can be viewed.

To reproduce problem click https://jsfiddle.net/bzadb3m7/ in IE and Firefox.

In the last case in the bottom right the image will be shown. In IE will not.

Is there way to use thumbnail in IE?

[Greg-DB]

Thanks for the report! First, for reference, we highly discourage embedding calls like this into HTML pages, as you're exposing the access token. A malicious visitor to the page could extract the access token and access the account via the API. (You should revoke the one you used on that JSFiddle.)

Anyway, I'll ask the team to look into this, but since this appears to be specific to IE, and this practice isn't recommended anyway, I can't promise this is something we'll be able to fix.

[alkotsov]

Can you give the recommended way for showing of thumbnails in web application?

[Greg-DB]

Exactly how you do this will depend on your setup, but in general you can download the thumbnail data from the Dropbox API to your server, and then just serve that data out normally as an image.