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Hi,
We're trying to integrate Dropbox within our service.
Right now, we're hung op on how to access the GET access_token after a user authenticated. Dropbox places a # before the GET variables so we can't access it the normal way and REQUEST_URI won't work either.
How can we get that access_token?!
Thank you in advance.
- Ralph
Never mind, I used the code flow instead.
Hi Ralph, when using the "token" flow, the access token is placed in the "fragment" of the redirect URI (the portion after the "#"), per the OAuth specification.
Browsers don't send that portion up to the server though, so if you are building a web app, using the "code" flow instead is the right way to go.
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