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Vladimir V.1's avatar
Vladimir V.1
Explorer | Level 4
8 years ago

Authorization code flow no longer works?

I am posting all required parameters to https://api.dropboxapi.com/oauth2/token but the servers keeps returning a very vague error:   REQUEST:   POST https://api.dropbox.com/oauth2/token HTTP/1.1...
  • Greg-DB's avatar
    8 years ago

    Thanks for the report! The request payload for /oauth2/token is expected to be delivered with a content type of "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", per RFC 6749 Section 4.1.3. It's possible we may have also been accepting "application/json" though. We'll look into it, but in the meantime, you can switch to "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", which I've confirmed is working as expected.

     

    Also, for reference, but api.dropbox.com and api.dropboxapi.com are supported for this endpoint.

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