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pakk4
11 months agoNew member | Level 2
Error 404 when trying to get refresh token using CURL C++
Hello, I am currently trying to get the refresh token for my scoped app using CURL C++ but I am just getting error 404 from the buffer. Here is my code: void get_refresh_token()
{
CURL* cur...
Greg-DB
11 months agoDropbox Staff
Based on this code, it looks like you're not formatting this HTTP request correctly:
- Make sure you're using the POST method (i.e., not GET)
- Send the parameters as application/x-www-form-urlencoded data in the request body, not as JSON in a Dropbox-API-Arg header
- When sending the app key/secret in the Authorization header, be sure to encode them with base64 encoding
Please refer to the /oauth2/token documentation here for information on how to configure this request.
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