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neunygph
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Response headers

Hi,   With API v2, we can be able to access/retrieve response header from get_thumbnail request in order to retrieve "etag" and "dropbox-api-result". I just start using  Dropbox SDK from http://dro...
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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    8 years ago
    Yes, if there have been any changes to the file, the rev will be different.
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neunygph
Explorer | Level 4
Hello Greg,

So that mean we can use the rev value as an etag to check if the file has been modified since the last request, is that correct ?
Thanks,
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Greg-DB
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8 years ago
Yes, if there have been any changes to the file, the rev will be different.
  • neunygph's avatar
    neunygph
    Explorer | Level 4
    8 years ago

    Oh I see, thank you.

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