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Arne517
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7 years ago

Direct download using ?dl=1 returns html page

Hi,   I'm downloading a folder from dropbox using `curl` with the public share url, and the `dl=1` query parameter. This used to work perfectly until this morning, when it started returning a html...
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Greg-DB
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7 years ago

KariP This difference is expected. Note that per the help article for this:

"The links may also redirect to *.dropbox.com/s/dl "

This is because different browsers have different support for some security features we use, so sometimes we need to fall back to that behavior instead.

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