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timrobinson33
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2 years ago

javascript - filesGetTemporaryLink API gives intermittent 500 error

Hi,   I'm using the javascript API and calling filesGetTemporaryLink() every so often (maybe 1% of the time) it gives a 500 response code. I'm repeatedly testing on the same set of files and it d...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    2 years ago

    We looked into this and we believe we've mitigated that particular issue. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues. Thanks again!

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Greg-DB
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Thanks for the report! Yes, for intermittent issues like this, you can just retry the request. I'll ask the team to investigate the cause based on this request ID.

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Greg-DB
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2 years ago

We looked into this and we believe we've mitigated that particular issue. Please let us know if you're still seeing any issues. Thanks again!

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    timrobinson33
    Helpful | Level 5
    2 years ago

    Thanks - I have implemented an exponential backoff retry but while testing it I noticed the problem didn't seem to be happening any more

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