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OAuth2 with IWebBrowser2
Hi. I am doing some app in C++ using IWebBrowser2 for authenticating user. The problem is that this browser component does not allow catching redirects so in the end of the either code or token flow ...
Hi Stephen. Thank you for response.
I read about this way but ideally my app would connect to Dropbox without need of user's copy-paste.
Anyway, I managed to beat the IWebBrowser2 to work with Dropbox OAuth2 flow. Eventually, for some URIs it gives correct address and https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/redirect_receiver appeared to be one of them.
Stephen C.14
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffHi Andrii, you might try simply hitting the https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/authorize endpoint without without passing the 'redirect_uri' web parameter.
The desired url might look something like this:
https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/authorize?client_id=<CLIENT APP KEY>&response_type=code
This will return a response with an OAuth code embedded in the page content without triggering a redirect.
With regard to your question about page stability, we make no guarantees that the html content that we return will not change. Therefore, we recommend that you do not resort to parsing the response page to retrieve the OAuth token.
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