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Dropbox stopped returning Content length in the response headers.

Dropbox stopped returning Content length in the response headers.

amitbtcs08
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Dropbox stopped returning Content length in the response headers. Any reason as to why?
When I call this from C# code, I don't get the response.ContentLength();
https://www.dropbox.com/s/a3lhvatmf7f6ys3/appv1.ipa?dl=1

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Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff

@rdee I don't have an updated timeline right now. The original plan was to revert on 3/1, but I'll post if/when there are any changes.

Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff

Update: we have extended the timeline and are planning to keep the current behavior until at least 3/14.

Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff

Update: the team has been able to complete some further updates to our infrastructure to be able to support the previous non-chunked behavior going forward indefinitely. That means that we plan to continue returning Content-Length (and not 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked') in the future and will not be reverting this on 3/14. (Regardless, for HTTP compatibility in general, we still recommend you make sure your HTTP clients support both types.) Hope this helps!

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