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Why did the freaks remove the possibility of eternal tokens? now we'll have to look for another service, redo all the applications.
does anyone have a real example of getting a token of this ugly service, these have all the examples in curl
Hi @OLIM,
I'm not sure what you ask for actually, but your example has nothing to do about tokens. There Basic authentication is used and it's something specific to this type of authentication, not just something Dropbox specific, and has always been performing using base64 encoding. You can't just concatenate the things!
About tokens, new issued access token is always short lived. There was time when long lived access token used to issue and such tokens, if you have some, are still usable, but are deprecated currently. If you want long lived access you need refresh token. It doesn't expire automatically. Take a look here for more info.
Hope this helps.
Hi there. I didn't find a way to generate a token, I accidentally deleted the old eternal token, now it can't be restored. And new tokens live for 4 hours. All software and applications have stopped working, customers are complaining. It is clear that I'have to find another service for applications. But I haven't found yet, do you know a third-party service that would pull tokens from the dropbox by Appkey and AppSecret. My applications are installed on devices that do not have access to the browser, it is required that the application does not require authorization data. Everything should be sewn in. And this is impossible with the current policy of Dropbox.
give me a real example for getting a token if you are truthful. For example, in VBA. curl it is not possible to run on the client machine. It doesn't work with EncodeBase64 either, if that's what you're talking about.
does not take all values of grant_type
Don't make partial posting! 🤔 Where is the code actually?
Function gettoken(appkey, appsecret, accesscode) As String
Set http = CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
http.Open "POST", "https://api.dropboxapi.com/oauth2/token", False
http.setRequestHeader "Authorization", "Basic " & EncodeBase64(appkey & ":" & appsecret)
http.setRequestHeader "Content-Type", "application/json"
http.setRequestHeader "grant_type", "authorization_code"
http.Send ("{""oauth1_token"":""i dont now what is it"",""oauth1_token_secret"":""i dont now what is it""}")
gettoken = http.ResponseText
End Function
@OLIM wrote:...
http.Send ("{""oauth1_token"":""i dont now what is it"",""oauth1_token_secret"":""i dont now what is it""}")
...
Me too... 🤷 Where came "oauth1_token" and "oauth1_token_secret" from? Do you have some outdated v1 tokens and want to transform them to v2 (the actual one)? You need to provide the temporary code to confirm the authentication - token provided as result of authorization. Did you read carefully the referred topic I linked to? I (or somebody else) haven't posted there anything similar!
By the way... "grant_type" is parameter, not header!
This call can be performed with GET request, so, I hope, you can make you life easy. 😉
да я уже что попадается то и вкладываю из примеров, целый день убил на это
перекинул code на параметр, теперь говорит : ResponseText : "{"error": "invalid_grant", "error_description": "code doesn't exist or has expired"}" : String
заебался короче
нету просто токен годовой хотя бы, надо все усложнаять
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