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De L.1
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8 years ago

/get_temporary_link URL is always setting content-disposition: attachment Header

When doing a call to https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/get_temporary_link to receive a temporarily link to a media file, the received URL will be like: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/apitl/1/.......
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
Thanks for the post! The documentation's reference to streaming the content is referring to streaming it in media players, for example. It isn't intended for displaying in the browser.

There isn't a way to control that unfortunately, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.

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