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sobharaj m.'s avatar
sobharaj m.
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10 years ago

URL Unauthorized access error while accessing files from dropbox?

we are accessing having a problem in URL we have a file named xyx (1).jpg while passing this to server we are getting response as Unauthorized Access. May I Know how to pass this request to Server? ...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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10 years ago

My guess would be that the library you're using makes request with OAuth 1 with an HMAC signature, and the signing code has a bug relating to URL encoding. Does the error happen for all files that have parentheses in it?

Can you tell us what library you're using? (Ideally, give us a link to it.)

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