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A couple of questions about get_temporary_link
Hi, folks—I’m using a team Dropbox account that has 1TB of daily bandwidth, but I’m a little unclear on how a couple of things work. Here are my questions: 1. Say I use /get_temporary_link to get...
Regarding the timing, I was referring to when the requests to the link returned by /2/files/get_temporary_link are initiated. That is, if all 100 initiate their requests to the link before the account's links are banned, I would expect all 100 to complete. I would expect any requests initiated after the account's links are banned to fail. So, if everyone downloaded it one at a time, then yes I would expect that to start failing after 40 people. Again though, I should caveat that this implementation detail is not documented or guaranteed.
Likewise, once the account's links are disabled, any further API calls to /2/files/get_temporary_link call should fail.
Thank you! Just to be sure I understand your answer to my question 1, here’s a followup more-specific version of that question:
Say I use /get_temporary_link to get a link to a 25GB file in my Dropbox account, and say 100 people try to use that link *within the next hour* to download the file. (So the timing issues don’t apply—this is all within a single day’s bandwidth limit.) And here again, say my bandwidth limit is 1TB.
Am I right in thinking that the first 40 or so people would succeed, and then after we reached the bandwidth limit, the account’s links would be disabled, and the /2/files/get_temporary_link call would fail?
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffRegarding the timing, I was referring to when the requests to the link returned by /2/files/get_temporary_link are initiated. That is, if all 100 initiate their requests to the link before the account's links are banned, I would expect all 100 to complete. I would expect any requests initiated after the account's links are banned to fail. So, if everyone downloaded it one at a time, then yes I would expect that to start failing after 40 people. Again though, I should caveat that this implementation detail is not documented or guaranteed.
Likewise, once the account's links are disabled, any further API calls to /2/files/get_temporary_link call should fail.
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