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grp3
3 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Functionality changes
Hi!
I play some audio files from dropbox all was great but yesterday something went wrong. I use
get_temporary_link
to get link of the file.
When I play .ogg file via temporary link in my pl...
Greg-DB
3 years agoDropbox Staff
Are you able to retrieve any specific error message or output?
We did recently update these links to use "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" (and accordingly not return the "Content-Length" header) on HTTP/1.1, but HTTP clients should automatically handle this. It's possible yours doesn't, however.
Also, that change was rolled out earlier than you're describing. When was the last time specifically that you saw this working?
- grp33 years agoExplorer | Level 4
Thank you for reply!
Users started to report issue the 3rd February in the evening.
I checked Content-Length in Postman and it was there. These headers I got from Postman:
accept-encoding: identity,gzip accept-ranges: bytes cache-control: max-age=60 content-disposition: attachment; filename="2.ogg"; filename*=UTF-8''2.ogg content-length: 3018658 content-security-policy: sandbox content-type: audio/ogg date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:04:06 GMT etag: 1642877210753874d pragma: public referrer-policy: no-referrer server: envoy strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload vary: Origin x-content-security-policy: sandbox x-content-type-options: nosniff x-dropbox-request-id: b6165d08b11c4e86ab427e2ef3f9151a x-dropbox-response-origin: far_remote x-robots-tag: noindex, nofollow, noimageindex, noindex, nofollow, noimageindex x-server-response-time: 16 x-webkit-csp: sandbox
I noticed that .ogg audio did not preload.
Except .ogg files I also have .m4a as duplicates. It is strange, but I switched to .m4a and it works. I compared headers of .ogg and .m4a and they were identical.
Now my app seems to work fine, but I am not sure the same won't happen with .m4a.
Do you know why .m4a works, but .ogg does not?
- Greg-DB3 years agoDropbox Staff
I'm not aware of any reason off hand that .m4a should works but .ogg wouldn't. Note that using Postman may not be representative of your actual video player client on Android though, as they may use different HTTP versions or features. Are you able to get any logging output for the actual client on Android?
- grp33 years agoExplorer | Level 4
I tried to get headers from android, but I didn't find working solution to do it. Thank you for you answers!
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