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vladabuba
6 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Dropbox SDK windows, redirect to localhost after successful authorization issue
Using DropboxOAuth2Helper and samples from Dropbox SDK for Windows, I had successfully implemented authorization (and I get valid access token). Part of this process is redirection to localhost, afte...
- 6 years ago
[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53669144/dropbox-sdk-redirect-to-localhost-after-successful-authorization ]
That 127.0.0.1:... page is a being served by the local web server that you control, for the purpose of receiving the access token. Once you receive the access token from the request with the url_with_fragment parameter, you can respond with an HTTP response containing whatever you'd like to show the user at that point. E.g., you can serve a basic HTML page showing a success message, telling the user they can close the tab/window, etc.. The error message here seems to just be indicating that the local web server isn't currently issuing a valid response.
Greg-DB
6 years agoDropbox Staff
[Cross-linking for reference: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53669144/dropbox-sdk-redirect-to-localhost-after-successful-authorization ]
That 127.0.0.1:... page is a being served by the local web server that you control, for the purpose of receiving the access token. Once you receive the access token from the request with the url_with_fragment parameter, you can respond with an HTTP response containing whatever you'd like to show the user at that point. E.g., you can serve a basic HTML page showing a success message, telling the user they can close the tab/window, etc.. The error message here seems to just be indicating that the local web server isn't currently issuing a valid response.
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