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Authorization web page not redirecting back to my app in Android
In our Android app, I am having an issue where the dropbox.com authorize web page does not redirect back to our app when the user clicks the Allow button. I wrote a sample app and the OAuth2 flow wo...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThanks for the report! I'm not aware of anything that should cause this, so we'll have to investigate.
It will be difficult since this doesn't reproduce in a sample app, so to begin, some additional information would be helpful:
- what version number of the SDK do you have installed?
- what Android version(s) are you seeing this with?
- have you tested this on multiple devices or emulators? Do they all display the same issue?
Dropbox sdk 3.0.3. Same behavior on both a 7.1.1 and a 6.0.1 device.
- Greg-DBThanks! Unfortunately I don't see anything out of the ordinary here. A few ideas next:
- It might be useful to see if there are any errors coming up in the JavaScript console, e.g., using Chrome remote debugging: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/remote-debugging/
- Also, can you try it in a non-Chrome browser?
- If you want, share a build that produces the issue with us and we'll try to troubleshoot it here: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/contactJust getting back into this... I will follow the other suggestions, but thought I'd report this. With Chrome Remote debugging, I see one warning when the page is first opened:
conversion.js:27 Failed to execute 'write' on 'Document': It isn't possible to write into a document from an asynchronously-loaded external script unless it is explicitly opened.
One other thing is that the url does not seem to include a "redirect" parameter. Should it?
- Greg-DBThanks! We'll look into that error.
And no, (as long as the authorization page URL starts with https://www.dropbox.com/1/connect as expected) that page should not have a redirect parameter. It's a special page for apps using the official SDK and knows about the db-<APP_KEY> URL schemes by default.
Speaking of the URL, can you share a sample one from a case where this issue occurs? That would be good to verify. Additionally, the specific version number(s) for the version(s) of Chrome where you're seeing this may be useful, in case we're using different versions.
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