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flygecko
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Over the air download via API fails today, worked yesterday.

Hi,   I have an embedded device that downlopads firmware updates over the air via the DropBox API.  Downloads worked fine yesterday, and fail today.  The code has not changed since then, and I even ...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago

Thanks for the additional information.

The length of the returned link can depend on the length of the original file path (as well as potentially other factors), so we can't guarantee any particular maxmimum length unfortunately. (For reference, mine is also coming out longer than 512 bytes.)

So, this may have just been a result of the file path getting longer and resulting in a URL larger than that buffer size. I'm afraid I don't have a solution on the API side, since the link can be expected to get that big. Are you able to increase the buffer size?

 

flygecko's avatar
flygecko
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

In future revisions most likely.  This does not bode well for any devices already out in the field.  I will work on fixing TI's code and see what I can do.  Thank you for the help.

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