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DropD
Explorer | Level 3
2 years ago

Dropbox not allowing head (header requests). Error 405

Hi all, after a bit of work, Dropbox is working now with either dl=1 or raw=1. Refer to my last article below:   https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/View-download-and-export/Need-jpg-not-jpeg/m-p/67462...
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DropD
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Hannah,

It is their database that is trying to pull in the images. This isn't an individual, (think Amazon). I have tried the shared link, but it doesn't work as provided with most venues. The thing that does work is dl=1 or raw=1, but ABE Books doesn't like either of those. I can see if they will give me a screen shot, but the errors they are seeing is in their system, so I wouldn't have access.
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Jay
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2 years ago

Hi DropD, since the shared links are working normally, there isn't much we can assist with if that site is accessing the site via a different method. This would be something they have to troubleshoot on their own end.

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    DropD
    Explorer | Level 3
    2 years ago

    Jay, to be fair, the Shared links are not really working as intended. Remember that we have to manipulate the extension to force it to work, i.e., (dl=1, or raw=1). That being said, ABE is the one venue that is not working with that hack, so, they are partially to blame also. I am a bit caught in the middle here and it's a bit frustrating. If we could just have a nice, clean image.jpg URL, we wouldn't have to go through this painful exercise.

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      Jay
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      2 years ago

      We appreciate the feedback, currently, there isn't a way to get a direct URL to the image itself, only using the raw=1 for the image to be displayed directly on the Dropbox site.

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        DropD
        Explorer | Level 3
        2 years ago

        Jay, I knew I wasn't crazy. Here is a link I found that has a direct image link with a .jpg as the extension. (Please ignore the subject matter, I just stumbled across this).

         

        https://www.dropbox.com/s/qugodzkpaxki40f/theunborn.jpg 

         

        This is exactly what I am talking about. It is a Dropbox link with a .jpg extension. How is this user able to accomplish this?

         

         

         

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