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ImpulseWebDev
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2 years ago

Issue Generating Refresh Token with OAuth Code Flow

Hello, I have been struggling a bit with getting a refresh token or any success response at all from the endpoint 'https://api.dropboxapi.com/oauth2/token' when following the guide here https://devel...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    2 years ago

    Given your redactions and descriptions, it seems like you're sending a parameter with the name being your app key and the value being your app secret, however that is not the correct formatting. When calling /oauth2/token to exchange the authorization code for an access token/refresh token with the code flow like this, you should send a parameter named "client_id" with the value being your app key, and a parameter named "client_secret" with the value being your app secret. You would do that the same way you already have a parameter named "code" with the value being the authorization code string.

     

    (Note that it's also possible to send the app key and secret as "Basic" authorization, which is what the example in the documentation does using the "-u" curl flag, but that would be encoded and formatted differently. I recommend just using the parameters as described above for simplicity.)

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