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We need users to login to our system only and access one dropbox account only. In other words many users access the same dropbox account. That account is a company account with shared readonly documents. We don't want the users access the dropbox account, so the server only has the credentials to access that only dropbox account.
Hello,
But it's not possible to call in the .NET code a think like:
var _auth = getAuth("dropBoxUser","UserPassword")
without having a popup asking for credentials?
Thanks.
I'm trying to do this:
curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/get_shared_link_file --header "Authorization: Bearer i8QD8..." --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"url\": \"https://www.dropbox.com/s/g1mijjb5deejf6h/Test.txt?dl=0\"}"
that works. Doing it In .NET:
string _url = "https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/sharing/get_shared_link_file"; client.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer i8Q......"); string _dropBoxParams = "{\"url\": \"https://www.dropbox.com/s/g1mijjb5deejf6h/Test.txt?dl=0\"}"; client.Headers.Add("Dropbox-API-Arg", _dropBoxParams); byte[] _responsebytes = client.UploadValues(_url, "POST", _postParameter);
but it gives: The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request.
What is the problem?
If you're going to use a single account like this, you should embed the access token like you do in your most recent post, not via username/password.
If you're doing this in .NET, we highly recommend using the official API v2 .NET SDK. That would do much of the work for you. If you use that, to make this call you would use the GetSharedLinkFileAsync method.
Otherwise, if you do want to make the call directly, without using the SDK, print the body of the response. That will contain more error information indicating what the issue is.
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