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toonladder
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

Saver fails with dataURI

For several years my web-app used the Saver with a dataURI successfully. Recently I discovered that it now fails consistently and returns "null" as error message. Normally the Saver returns an error ...
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
We highly recommend setting up TLS on your web app for the sake of security, but if you don't have that set up, but for reference, it is technically possible to still use the OAuth flow without it. You would use the "code" flow but omit the 'redirect_uri' parameter. The user would then need to manually copy/paste the resulting authorization code into your app, which would then exchange it for an access token:

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#authorization
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toonladder
Explorer | Level 3
8 years ago

Thanks for pointing me to this alternative solution!

 

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