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AlemoDaniel
7 years agoHelpful | Level 6
CORS Problem with Namespace and Dropbox-API-Path-Root header
Trying to list team root folders using this request from the namespace guide:
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder \
--header "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \
--header "Cont...
- 7 years ago
So i found that this works:
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder?path_root={".tag": "root", "root":"<namespace_id>"} \ --header "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{"path":""}'
I didn't find this specific implementation documented anywhere, but rather derived from section Browser-based JavaScript and CORS pre-flight requests from the documentation:
Use URL parameters
arg
andauthorization
instead of HTTP headersDropbox-API-Arg
andAuthorization
.I think it would still be cool, if Dropbox-API-Path-Root would be added to allowed headers. Currently this is the response i get:
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, Accept-Language, Content-Language, Cache-Control,
Dropbox-API-Select-User, Accept, Range, Referer, Dropbox-API-Arg, If-Modified-Since,
If-None-Match, Content-Type, Dropbox-API-User-Locale, AuthorizationAs you see, Dropbox-API-Arg is already supported, so there is no need to work around the preflight request
- 7 years agoThese headers have been added, so this should work now. Hope this helps!
AlemoDaniel
Helpful | Level 6
So i found that this works:
curl -X POST https://api.dropboxapi.com/2/files/list_folder?path_root={".tag": "root", "root":"<namespace_id>"} \ --header "Authorization: Bearer <token>" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --data '{"path":""}'
I didn't find this specific implementation documented anywhere, but rather derived from section Browser-based JavaScript and CORS pre-flight requests from the documentation:
Use URL parameters arg
and authorization
instead of HTTP headers Dropbox-API-Arg
and Authorization
.
I think it would still be cool, if Dropbox-API-Path-Root would be added to allowed headers. Currently this is the response i get:
Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Origin, Accept-Language, Content-Language, Cache-Control,
Dropbox-API-Select-User, Accept, Range, Referer, Dropbox-API-Arg, If-Modified-Since,
If-None-Match, Content-Type, Dropbox-API-User-Locale, Authorization
As you see, Dropbox-API-Arg is already supported, so there is no need to work around the preflight request
Greg-DB
7 years agoDropbox Staff
Thanks for the report! I'll ask the team to update our CORS implementation to allow this.
- AlemoDaniel7 years agoHelpful | Level 6Thanks, that would be awesome. Also would be cool to have the url hacking documented a bit more detailed somewhere :)
- Greg-DB7 years agoDropbox StaffNo problem, I'll ask the team to expand the documentation on this as well.
- Greg-DB7 years agoDropbox StaffThese headers have been added, so this should work now. Hope this helps!
- AlemoDaniel7 years agoHelpful | Level 6Can confirm that it now works for CORS. Thanks for the quick adjustment!
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