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gauravsc
7 years agoExplorer | Level 3
Internal server error using save_url
I am using dropbox http api end point save_url. I am developing an application where we get dropbox files using chooser and upload those file in our app`s dropbox account. Till now everything was wor...
- 7 years ago
Thanks for the report! It looks like this can occur when the Dropbox user that owns the links has exceeded their shared link traffic limit. I'll ask the team to fix this up and return a more useful error in this case.
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Thanks for the report! It looks like this can occur when the Dropbox user that owns the links has exceeded their shared link traffic limit. I'll ask the team to fix this up and return a more useful error in this case.
gauravsc
7 years agoExplorer | Level 3
from the doc you shared:
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- 20 GB per day: The total amount of traffic that all of your links and file requests combined can generate
"
i am developing an app, specifically i am testing on big files, so i believe, this could happen. Is there any developer account or something where i can test and develop.
Apart from this, when would the ban revoked? so i can resume working. I will keep this thing in mind, about size limit.
- Greg-DB7 years agoDropbox Staff
There isn't a way to avoid this for developer testing unfortunately, but I'll pass this along as a feature request.
Shared links and file requests are banned temporarily, 1 day for the first time, and progressively longer for each time after.
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