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Large uploads via /get_temporary_upload_link are terminated with '413 Request Entity Too Large'
Hi! I am uploading files via the temporarily upload links generated via the /get_temporary_upload_link call. This all works fine, but the POST upload call to the generated upload link (e.g. https://...
Unfortunately, the links returned by get_temporary_upload_link do have a file size limit, as you found. Apologies this isn't better documented! I'll ask the team to clarify this.
There isn't an alternative though, so that does mean that in this case, to upload large files, you'd need to either give the access token to the client to perform the upload session calls client-side (which isn't recommended for untrusted clients, of course), or send all of the data to upload through your server to perform the upload session calls there.
I'll also send this along as a feature request for a 'get_temporary_upload_link'-like version of upload sessions to support uploading large files without direct access to the access token, but I can't promise if or when that would be implemented.
hello, will you have any decision made regarding the length of the file? I am starting a new project and I require this functionality but for files larger than 15GB
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Matias_FAC No, I don't have an update on this request.
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