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flygecko
Explorer | Level 4
7 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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7 years ago

BAB1 The length of the returned link depends on a few things, including the file path, based on how it's implemented on the Dropbox servers. It's possible the length did increase due to some backend change recently.

I'm checking with engineering to see what may have changed here, and to see if we can potentially revert it, but I can't make any promises with respect to that right now.

Unfortunately, I don't have any other workarounds to offer.

BAB1's avatar
BAB1
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago

Thanks Greg.

Look forward to hear from you.

  • IOT_Developer's avatar
    IOT_Developer
    Helpful | Level 5
    7 years ago

    We have the same problem here with more then 100K devices in the market at the moment. Therefore we ask you to find a solution to this as well.

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