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Since Dropbox has decided to nix support for Edge 18, which has made the UWP Webview control useless for authorization to get a token, is there a workable solution for UWP?
I have not found a way for a UWP app to launch the external browser, perform the OAuth2 flow, and then listen for the redirect URL in response to retrieve the token. I have examined this page, but it applies to WPF desktop apps or ASP web apps and the HttpListener does not work in UWP without special permissions or command lines:
https://dropbox.github.io/dropbox-sdk-dotnet/html/T_Dropbox_Api_DropboxOAuth2Helper.htm
Is there ANY workable solution for a UWP app to authorize a user to get a token to upload/download files to Dropbox storage from a UWP app that works out of the box?
More information regarding the issues with Webview and Edge 18 I found here which confirms multiple users are being affected:
Thanks, Greg.
It really helps!
At last, are there any options to close a browser page https://www.dropbox.com/oauth2/authorize... with Cancel/Allow buttons after authorization?
Thanks for following up. No, unfortunately I don't believe there's a way to close that page. I'll send this along to the team to see if we can improve this in the future, but I can't make any promises.
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