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Oops. On debugging, I found that it is stuck at CopyTo and that takes a long time and times out. So does the actual download occur on "CopyTo"?   Update: Was above to solve this by studying the Asp.net samples on: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/web-forms/overview/performance-and-caching/using-asynchronous-methods-in-aspnet-45#CreatingAsynchGizmos ... View more

Any ideas how to catch a Timeout exception for large downloads? I tried using Try/Catch but it is not raised.   Update: I tried this code but it doesn't cause a timeout.   var expirationTimeTask = Task.Delay(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(30)); var strm = response.GetContentAsStreamAsync(); var finishedTask = await Task.WhenAny(expirationTimeTask, strm); if (finishedTask == expirationTimeTask) { //timeout error processing (does not get here) }   ... View more

  Thanks for the speedy reply! I was missing the "await" and hence it was complaining that CopyTo is not a method of Task<Stream>.     ... View more

I have one more question in this regard. Didn't post a new question because you still don't have a separate section for App Marketing questions.   Question: I will be making a dropbox Web App as an additional facility for my own Desktop App for which I already have customers. Can I start charging for this Web App in the Development status which will be accessible only to my existing customers?   These customers are initially going to be much less than 500 in number. And as far as I can see, upto 500 customers are possible even before applying for production. In fact, initially I'm only going to invite some 50 customers who will pay for this. Does it sound OK or are there any gotchas?   Thanks.   ... View more

Finally, I was able to test it with https and it works perfectly. In fact, if I follow this approach, it works automatically, asking for login only once and then navigating automatically. This is great.   Thanks, Sanjay ... View more

That's exactly what I want. That means, I can just save a flag in the cookie that says it was approved once. And use it to switch on that option. Switch it off only if the user wants to switch the dropbox accounts by some other action.   >>Note that this still will return a new access token to your app though.   That's OK. Will it create a problem for Dropbox system itself to have too many access tokens generated? Or does it automatically recycle by invalidating the old one?   Thanks, Sanjay ... View more

Apparently, many may want this feature. For example, here is a thread on SO that has exactly a similar question with no solution so far. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12275100/is-there-a-way-to-use-dropbox-for-authentication-without-re-authorization ... View more