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Coderpina
6 years agoNew member | Level 2
Multimedia and MIME Types ?
Hiyo . I have a low-traffic webpage that calls 1-3 [legal] sound files hosted on my personal public dropbox folder. I'm troubleshooting their inconsistent playback, testing different HTML5 audio ta...
- 6 years ago
I'm not sure I follow your post entirely (it looks like you may have something cut off at "Dropbox’s serving my "...?)
1. A ".htaccess" configuration file is specific to certain kinds of web servers, but I don't believe Dropbox uses them. Is there a particular behavior with Dropbox you're having trouble with? If you provide steps to reproduce the issue, as well as the unexpected error or output we can take a look, though I can't promise we'd be able to change the behavior for you.
2. In this link, you're using the "dl.dropbox.com" domain, which isn't officially supported for linking to files. It may currently work, but we can't promise it will continue to. (The same goes for "dl.dropboxusercontent.com".)
The only officially supported/documented way is to use "www.dropbox.com", optionally using the URL parameters documented here. Those may or may not suit your use case though.
Greg-DB
6 years agoDropbox Staff
I'm not sure I follow your post entirely (it looks like you may have something cut off at "Dropbox’s serving my "...?)
1. A ".htaccess" configuration file is specific to certain kinds of web servers, but I don't believe Dropbox uses them. Is there a particular behavior with Dropbox you're having trouble with? If you provide steps to reproduce the issue, as well as the unexpected error or output we can take a look, though I can't promise we'd be able to change the behavior for you.
2. In this link, you're using the "dl.dropbox.com" domain, which isn't officially supported for linking to files. It may currently work, but we can't promise it will continue to. (The same goes for "dl.dropboxusercontent.com".)
The only officially supported/documented way is to use "www.dropbox.com", optionally using the URL parameters documented here. Those may or may not suit your use case though.
- Coderpina6 years agoNew member | Level 2
Thanks Greg, that's helpful.
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