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heisenberg41
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5 years ago

Bad HTTP "Content-Type" header

Hello, I am writing a simple app that creates some folders when we add a new client to our systems. I keep getting an error: Error in call to API function "files/create_folder_batch": Bad HTTP ...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

It looks like you're just passing along a native object as the API call parameters, and curl is then applying the multi-part Content-Type. You should send up the parameters as JSON.

You can build your parameters as JSON like:

$params = json_encode(array(
    'paths'=> $folders,
    'autorename'=> false,
    'force_async'=> false));
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heisenberg41
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

Thank you Greg! That worked.  

Biggest noob question of all.  How did you know it had to be JSON encoded?

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