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bobbotron
2 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Dropbox returns 405 often on HEAD requests
I maintain some software that ingests files from dropbox. Recently it has started failing because dropbox often returns a 405 "Method not allowed" error on HEAD operations. Is this a known issue, is there a fix pending for this?
Here's an example of this. (I have deleted this file but you can reproduce with pretty much any file in dropbox)
% curl -s -I "https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f8gimqdxyid48e/test.txt?dl=1" | grep "HTTP"
HTTP/2 302
% curl -s -I "https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f8gimqdxyid48e/test.txt?dl=1" | grep "HTTP"
HTTP/2 302
% curl -s -I "https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f8gimqdxyid48e/test.txt?dl=1" | grep "HTTP"
HTTP/2 302
% curl -s -I "https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f8gimqdxyid48e/test.txt?dl=1" | grep "HTTP"
HTTP/2 405
% curl -s -I "https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f8gimqdxyid48e/test.txt?dl=1" | grep "HTTP"
HTTP/2 302
% curl -s -I "https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f8gimqdxyid48e/test.txt?dl=1" | grep "HTTP"
HTTP/2 302
% curl -s -I "https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f8gimqdxyid48e/test.txt?dl=1" | grep "HTTP"
HTTP/2 405
4 Replies
- Greg-DB2 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
Thanks for the report. I'll ask the team to look into this.
- bobbotron2 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Thanks Greg-DB! Any updates on this, or a timeline for a fix?
- Greg-DB2 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
bobbotron I don't have news or a timeline on this right now. I'll follow up here once I have any updates.
- Greg-DB2 years ago
Dropbox Community Moderator
This should be fixed now. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues.
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