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bambaba12
Explorer | Level 4
10 months ago

ECONNRESET while downloading shared file as a stream

Hello, when I try to download a shared file using API , the socket closes at the 10th minute, and I receive an 'ECONNRESET' error. Without using the API, I was able to download for an hour. And after...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
    10 months ago

    We've increased the /2/sharing/get_shared_link_file endpoint timeout. For downloads that will take a long time, please use Range requests to retrieve the entire file across multiple requests as described in my previous message.

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