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n00b-iest question ever: What url is the Saver parameter referring to?
I've registered an app that I run off of localhost. I have gotten the Chooser to work. But the only way I can get the saver to not give me a 403 error is to use as its parameter the dropbox url that ...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staff1. The URL given to the Saver is supposed to be a URL of a file that will be saved to the end user's Dropbox account. The Saver won't be able to download from a localhost URL though. The URL you supply to the Saver is sent off to the Dropbox servers to download, which can't access your local machine and the file it is serving locally, since it's not available on the Internet. The URL you supply to the Saver needs to be accessible on the Internet, like the Dropbox link sample you gave (but it doesn't need to be hosted on Dropbox of course).
2. If you want to get the original file path from a Chooser link, that is possible via the API if you have the right user linked. This was recently covered here:
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