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Files Uploaded are Corrupted After api usage
I tried uploading various documents of types ms word doc and pdf to the site using the standard fread method in my curl postfields input. The files are corrupted and cannot be repaired by a word processor like libreoffice afterwards. I tried encoding the fread in base64, but the corruption still occured. How can I ensure my files are not corrupted when using the api and curl?
I see you're adding a layer of base64 encoding via your call to base64_encode. You should not base64 encode the file data when uploading it. Try removing that base64_encode call.
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
It sounds like there may be a problem with how you're transmitting or encoding the data for the upload call. Can you share the problematic code?
$dropbox_url_upload = "https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload"; $opendoc = fopen($filename, 'rb'); $docsize = $doc['size']; $d1curl = curl_init(); curl_setopt($d1curl, CURLOPT_URL, $dropbox_url_upload); curl_setopt($d1curl, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, $timeout); curl_setopt($d1curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, [ utf8_encode('Authorization: Bearer ' . $dropbox_token), 'Content-Type: application/octet-stream', 'Dropbox-API-Arg: '. json_encode( array( "path"=> $dropbox_directory, "mode" => "add", "autorename" => true, "mute" => false ))]); curl_setopt($d1curl, CURLOPT_POST, true); curl_setopt($d1curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, base64_encode(fread($opendoc, $docsize))); curl_setopt($d1curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); $dropbox_upload = curl_exec($d1curl); $http_request = curl_getinfo($d1curl, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE); echo $dropbox_upload; echo $http_request; curl_close($d1curl); fclose($opendoc);- Greg-DB
I see you're adding a layer of base64 encoding via your call to base64_encode. You should not base64 encode the file data when uploading it. Try removing that base64_encode call.
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