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API get_metadata returns 429 text/html
Recently we've been getting text/html 429 responses from the get_metadata endpoint, when we specify
Accept: application/json
header.
Response:
{:request=>{:url=>"https://api.dropboxapi.co...
To follow up here, the team confirmed that they found and resolved the issue with the excessive 429 responses with HTML bodies as of late Friday. Apologies for the inconvenience.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for the report. It looks like we may be using a generic HTML error page in some rate limiting cases. We'll look into it.
We're having a similar issue.
Some requests to different endpoints are returning 429, that's may be normal due to rate limit.
But before, Retry-After header was returned, and we waited that time before retrying another request.
Now, Retry-After isn't present and we don't know exactly how long to wait before retrying or continuing the upload.
- Greg-DB
To follow up here, the team confirmed that they found and resolved the issue with the excessive 429 responses with HTML bodies as of late Friday. Apologies for the inconvenience.
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