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DMCA Takedown Notice on Empty RAR File
Hi there,
I was testing a third party app using the Dropbox API and I noticed that an empty RAR file created using WinRAR would not download through the third party app, but it would download from the Dropbox web client directly. So I dug around a bit and noticed that the server response was 461-DMCA takedown notice from Malwarebytes.
I'm assuming this is a bug with your automatic detection. The expected behaviour is that the file should simply be downloaded through the API normally.
To recap:
- Create an empty WinRAR archive in Windows using the right click menu in Windows Explorer
- Upload this file to Dropbox
- Attempt to download this file through the Dropbox API
- You will see here that the received HTTP response is an error with code 461-DMCA takedown notice
- Mark
Super User II
moves to API forum
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for the report! This is fixed now.
Richard P.Super User alumni
Old test file, perhaps? ;)
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