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Arne517
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7 years ago

Direct download using ?dl=1 returns html page

Hi,   I'm downloading a folder from dropbox using `curl` with the public share url, and the `dl=1` query parameter. This used to work perfectly until this morning, when it started returning a html...
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Greg-DB
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We've had our engineers working on this and the good news is the problem has been fixed. Please try again and you should find that this functionality works correctly.

Apologies for any inconvenience this caused.
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SeppeR
Explorer | Level 4
7 years ago
Thanks! Works again!

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