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App Code and App Secret Input php curl
When I add the required app code and app secret for the 0auth2/token curl, should it be placed in the http header, or in the curlopt_postfields setopt? If it goes in the http header, should it be a s...
When calling /oauth2/token, you can actually pass the app key and secret either as 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' (not JSON) POST parameters, or in the place of the username and password, respectively, in "HTTP basic authentication", that is, in the "Authorization" header. You can find more information on that in the /oauth2/token documentation:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#oauth2-token
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffWhen calling /oauth2/token, you can actually pass the app key and secret either as 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' (not JSON) POST parameters, or in the place of the username and password, respectively, in "HTTP basic authentication", that is, in the "Authorization" header. You can find more information on that in the /oauth2/token documentation:
https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#oauth2-token
So, I would have a element in my httpheader array that looks like "Authorization: " . $appkey . ":" . $appsecret where the appkey colon appsecret are base 64 encoded? The element I have now is a utf8 encoded $appkey . ":" . $appsecret without "Authorization:" to the left of the string.
- Greg-DB
I see you opened a new thread for this with more information so I'll follow up with you there.
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