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Cloud
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5 years ago

Upload file with special characters will get INVALID_PATH error with non-json format

When trying to upload a file with special character to dropbox, dropbox server will response http code 400 and the error message is non-json format with error response "Error in call to API function ...
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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

Yes, depending on the kind of error, the response may be plain text or JSON. You should check the 'Content-Type' response header to check what it is. For example, in this sample you shared it's "text/plain; charset=utf-8". You can find more information on the different kinds of errors the Dropbox API may return in the documentation here. 

 

Please also refer to this document for information on how to properly encode special characters in parameters when calling content-download and content-upload endpoints like this.

 

You can also refer to this article for information on reserved and ignored paths in general.

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