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lair
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4 years ago

https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download_zip API issue

Hi there!   First of all thank you so much for the great API! It is easy to understand and use and it is very well documented. Now a bit of frustration. I'm trying to get folder contents usin...
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Greg-DB
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4 years ago

Thanks for the report! We'll look into it.

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    lair
    New member | Level 2
    4 years ago

    How reliable is the use of "Range" header when fetching folder zip? Is there any guarantee that if directory contents don't change dropbox will return the same byte sequence in the response stream? My plan is to call /files/download_zip endpoint multiple times if the first fetch fails and set the "Range" HTTP header on subsequent calls to skip data that I have fetched from the endpoint already. Would this work?

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      lair
      New member | Level 2
      4 years ago

      Nor reliable at all. The header is ignored. The same data is returned regardless of the value of the header.

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    Greg-DB
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    4 years ago

    The issue with these requests failing at 5 minutes should be fixed now. Please try again and let me know if you're still seeing that. Thanks!

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