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wolfgangmeyers's avatar
wolfgangmeyers
Helpful | Level 5
2 years ago

409 error when attempting to download image files

This was working perfectly fine a few days ago when I was testing integration with aibrush.art. Now when my app makes requests for any files ending in .webp or .png, a 409 response is returned with no payload. If I download the corresponding .json file with image metadata, it downloads with no problem. Seems like an api issue.

  • Well, it has mysteriously stopped happening since I reported it. Someone must have caught the bug and fixed it 🙂

  • wolfgangmeyers's avatar
    wolfgangmeyers
    Helpful | Level 5

    Update - if I rename a file with a .webp or .png extension to end in _webp or _png respectively, the download works.

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    I'll be happy to help with any issues you're having with the Dropbox API, but I'll need some more information. Please reply with:

    • the name and version number of the platform and SDK/library you are using, if any
    • the steps to reproduce the issue, including relevant code snippet(s)
    • the full text of any error or unexpected output, ideally including any/all headers and bodies for both request and response

    Please be sure to redact any sensitive values, such as any access tokens or refresh tokens.

    • wolfgangmeyers's avatar
      wolfgangmeyers
      Helpful | Level 5

      Thanks for the help!

      I'm using the "dropbox" npm package version 10.34.0.

      Here's a code snippet that shows the `Dropbox` instance being used to download the image file:

      const imageFileName = `image_filename.png`;
      const imageResult = (await this.dropbox.filesDownload({
      path: `/${imageFileName}`,
      })).result;

      For more context, here is a link to the place in my codebase that has the problem: https://github.com/wolfgangmeyers/aibrush-2/blob/main/src/lib/dropbox.ts#L167

      Request Headers:

      POST /2/files/download HTTP/1.1
      Accept: */*
      Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
      Accept-Language: en,en-US;q=0.9
      Authorization: Bearer <redacted>
      Connection: keep-alive
      Content-Length: 0
      Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/0d433c25-8365-4933-a96f-6f07543a899f.png}"}
      Host: content.dropboxapi.com
      Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
      Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
      Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site
      User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
      sec-ch-ua: "Google Chrome";v="113", "Chromium";v="113", "Not-A.Brand";v="24"
      sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0
      sec-ch-ua-platform: "Linux"


      Response Headers:

      HTTP/1.1 409 Conflict
      Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
      Access-Control-Expose-Headers: Accept-Ranges, Content-Range, ETag, Dropbox-API-Result
      Cache-Control: no-cache
      Content-Security-Policy: sandbox allow-forms allow-scripts
      X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
      Content-Type: application/json
      Accept-Encoding: identity,gzip
      Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 16:55:48 GMT
      Server: envoy
      Content-Length: 97
      Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload
      X-Robots-Tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex
      X-Dropbox-Response-Origin: far_remote
      X-Dropbox-Request-Id: 05ee6d257ece4f0e849a94b9d15d4fa3


      If I change the file name to end in "_png" instead of ".png" and then download it, I get a 200 response and it downloads fine. Same happens with .webp files. The .json files that I'm using to store image metadata download without any issues.

    • wolfgangmeyers's avatar
      wolfgangmeyers
      Helpful | Level 5

      I just replied with all of the info you requested but my reply disappeared. Did you get the reply or do I need to repost it?

    • wolfgangmeyers's avatar
      wolfgangmeyers
      Helpful | Level 5

      Request headers:

      POST /2/files/download HTTP/1.1
      Accept: */*
      Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
      Accept-Language: en,en-US;q=0.9
      Authorization: Bearer <redacted>
      Connection: keep-alive
      Content-Length: 0
      Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/0d433c25-8365-4933-a96f-6f07543a899f.png}"}
      Host: content.dropboxapi.com
      Sec-Fetch-Dest: empty
      Sec-Fetch-Mode: cors
      Sec-Fetch-Site: cross-site
      User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
      sec-ch-ua: "Google Chrome";v="113", "Chromium";v="113", "Not-A.Brand";v="24"
      sec-ch-ua-mobile: ?0
      sec-ch-ua-platform: "Linux"

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