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Anoop_Brijmohun
7 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Content-Type setting for downloading using dropbox api v2
Good-day, im busy trying to write a simple app to download files from dropbox. im a newbie to mobile dev and asistance would be appricated. im am receiving this error when downloading. Dropbo...
- 6 years ago
Found the solution here
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/xamarin/android/app-fundamentals/http-stack?tabs=windows
Anoop_Brijmohun
Helpful | Level 6
Hi Robert, the reason I'm trying to add in the HTTP header is due to the "Bad HTTP content-type" message I am receiving... hence I thought I needed to specify one...
Any ideas or even a sample code extract I could try of one that works
Thanks
Any ideas or even a sample code extract I could try of one that works
Thanks
DBX_Robert
7 years agoDropbox Staff
I am able to run the following C# sample from our .NET tutorials page. It assumes a file named "file.txt" in the root folder of your Dropbox account.
using System; using System.Threading.Tasks; using Dropbox.Api; namespace sampleApp { class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { var task = Task.Run((Func<Task>)Program.Run); task.Wait(); } static async Task Run() { using (var dbx = new DropboxClient("<OAuth Token>")) { using (var response = await dbx.Files.DownloadAsync("/file.txt")) { Console.WriteLine(await response.GetContentAsStringAsync()); } } } } }
If you are doing this on mobile, are you using a framework like Xamarin?
- Anoop_Brijmohun7 years agoHelpful | Level 6
Hi
I am using Xamarin Forms.
I receive this error
Error in call to API function "files/download": Bad HTTP "Content-Type" header: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".
Expecting one of "text/plain", "text/plain; charset=utf-8", "application/octet-stream",
"application/octet-stream; charset=utf-8".at this stage
using (var response = await dbx.Files.DownloadAsync("/Test.PDF"))
- DBX_Robert7 years agoDropbox Staff
That is the line of code I would expect to be throwing the error based on the information you've shared.
Your issue appears to be very similar to https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/API-Support-Feedback/Xamarin-DropBox-APi-HTTP-400-Bad-request-on-DownloadAsync/m-p/302892.
Given that the code sample works in a standard .NET project, but does not in a Xamarin project, Xamarin is likely adding additional logic that is modifying the Content-Type header in this use case. There is little we can do to help in this situation as we do not provide support for Xamarin issues with the official Dropbox .NET SDK. One place to possibly find additional help could be the Xamarin forums.
- Anoop_Brijmohun7 years agoHelpful | Level 6
thanks for the support
will follow up with Xamarin
thanks again
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