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FSUInnovation
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

Working with File Content Sent From API file download curl request (php code)

I have a file that is in the form of a word doc on my dropbox application. I was able to get a working php curl without any errors from dropbox's side to download the file. I understand through the h...
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FSUInnovation's avatar
FSUInnovation
Explorer | Level 4
5 years ago

I guess the API related question I was is if I need to use any special encoding with that file data read from the API to prevent corruption regardless of how I choose to stream or use it.

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Greg-DB
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5 years ago

No, to download the file data from Dropbox you don't need to apply any special encoding.

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