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Hosting my app and content
Hi, there are a couple of points in the developer's reference guide I don't quite understand. I want to use DropBox to host my app, and any downloadable content I create for it. My app will be freel...
- The API was designed with the intention that each user would link their own Dropbox account, in order to interact with their own files. However, it is technically possible to connect to just one account. The SDKs don't offer explicit support for it and we don't recommend doing so, for various technical and security reasons. If you do only have your app connect to a single account, the user limit wouldn't have any impact, since there would only be one Dropbox account.
However if you did want to go this route, instead of kicking off the authorization flow, you would manually use an existing access token for your account and app. (Just be careful not to revoke it, e.g. via https://www.dropbox.com/account/security .)
Also, the "app folder" permission means that a special "app folder" is created for your app in the linked account and the app only has access to things in that folder, including nested files/folders, but not anything elsewhere in the account.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffThe API was designed with the intention that each user would link their own Dropbox account, in order to interact with their own files. However, it is technically possible to connect to just one account. The SDKs don't offer explicit support for it and we don't recommend doing so, for various technical and security reasons. If you do only have your app connect to a single account, the user limit wouldn't have any impact, since there would only be one Dropbox account.
However if you did want to go this route, instead of kicking off the authorization flow, you would manually use an existing access token for your account and app. (Just be careful not to revoke it, e.g. via https://www.dropbox.com/account/security .)
Also, the "app folder" permission means that a special "app folder" is created for your app in the linked account and the app only has access to things in that folder, including nested files/folders, but not anything elsewhere in the account.
However if you did want to go this route, instead of kicking off the authorization flow, you would manually use an existing access token for your account and app. (Just be careful not to revoke it, e.g. via https://www.dropbox.com/account/security .)
Also, the "app folder" permission means that a special "app folder" is created for your app in the linked account and the app only has access to things in that folder, including nested files/folders, but not anything elsewhere in the account.
Thanks Greg, that gives me something to think about.
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