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lfranchi_pilot
Helpful | Level 5
5 months ago

Large number of new errors when making write actions via Dropbox API

Hi folks,   We’re having some trouble with our Dropbox API integration and getting new errors from the Dropbox API.   Some backstory: we’ve been using the Dropbox API to manage shared folders acr...
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    lfranchi_pilot
    4 months ago

    Followup here as we've now resolved this issue and want to share our findings if anyone else runs into the same problems:

     

    The issue ultimately turned out to be the lack of the Dropbox-API-Path-Root header. However, even after including it still failed the same way because we didn't JSON encode the contents of the header prior to handing things off to our HTTP library. We also never were able to (intentionally or accidentally) generate the errors documented in https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/path-root-header-modes so it was difficult to diagnose we were not using the header properly.

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