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mytest101's avatar
mytest101
Explorer | Level 3
11 months ago

when I use dropboxAPI to delete file, I get 500 error. why?

It work well,when App run as normal user privilege.  but when App run as system privilege, I got 500 error.  Code: WinHttpOpenRequest(hConnect,L"POST",L"2/files/delete_v2", L"HTTP/1.1", WINHTTP_NO_REFERER,WINHTTP_DEFAULT_ACCEPT_TYPES,WINHTTP_FLAG_SECURE);

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    • mytest101's avatar
      mytest101
      Explorer | Level 3

      Thank you for your reply; when I run my app as user privilege ,All works well. but run as system privilege , I receive statusCode=500,All response message: 

      HTTP/1.1 500   

      Cache-Control: no-cache

      Content-Type: text/plain: charset-utf-8

      server: envoy

      Content-security-policy: sandbox allow-forms allow-scripts 

      x-content-type-option: nosiff

      accept-encoding: identity,gzip

      x-dropbox-response-origin: far_remote 

      use code like: WinHttpConnect(hin,"api.dropboxapi.com",443,0);

                       WinHttpOpenRequest(**,"POST", 2/files/delete_v2.**);

                       WinHttpAddRequestHeader("Authorization: Bearer *******");

                       WinHttpAddRequestHeader("Content-type: application/json");

                      WinhttpSendRequest(**, "{\"path\": \"/work/path\"}");

      • Greg-DB's avatar
        Greg-DB
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        Thanks for following up. Can you please share the rest of the requested information so we can look up these errors? Thanks in advance!

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