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leoyuan2000
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8 years ago

How to use DropboxClient.Files.DownloadAsync() to download a part of a file?

I'm using Dropbox .net api DropboxClient.Files.DownloadAsync() to download files from my Dropbox account. The API document says it supports file range spec, meaning I can download the first 1000 byte...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
The HTTP interface itself for API v2 does support "Range Retrieval Requests", but that's unfortunately not currently implemented in the .NET SDK you're using. I'll send this along as a feature request for that, but I can't promise if/when that would be implemented there.
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leoyuan2000
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8 years ago

Thanks a lot Greg for the reply!

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