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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.
+1 on this feature request. My product currently supports uploading media files to Google Drive and Google Photos with a temp link, which works great for large files. It's a bit disappointing that this isn't possible with the Dropbox API due to the small file size limit, but hopefully this feature request gets a higher priority if more people need this.
Thanks.
Hi raRaRa ,
what's the method you use wiht Drive API to upload with temporary link, as you describe here? Didn't find any info.
Thanks!
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