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pear0533
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2 years ago

Dropbox API Hangs During Large File Download

Hey there! I am currently maintaining a mod launcher software that utilizes the Dropbox .NET C# API to allow users to download mod files.   Unfortunately, large files (usually 2-5GB in size) do n...
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Greg-DB
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Thanks for the helpful added explanation Здравко!

 

pear0533 For reference, you can find more information on how to set ranges in the specification here. Note that Dropbox does not support setting multiple ranges in a single request though. That is, you can specify a single closed range like "bytes=0-10", or a single open range like "bytes=50-", but you can't specify multiple ranges at once like "bytes=0-999,4500-5499".

 

Hope this helps!

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pear0533
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2 years ago

I see now, yeah, that should help. The only concern that I have is that even while using range requests previously, I do not understand why eventually I was no longer able to perform any more range requests. Hopefully this isn't the case this time... thanks!

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