files/download can't handle files with embedded spaces

bmcdonald

I have a file that has three spaces in the name.  When I try to use the API to download it I get a 409.  I have tried encoding the spaces as %20 + and even \u0020 and it always fails with a 409.  Please advise.

 

curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download \ --header 'Authorization: Bearer <redacted>' \ --header 'Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/DoNotDeleteFunctionalTest/TEST SPACES.txt"}' 
 
Result:
{
"error_summary": "path/not_found/...",
"error": {
".tag": "path",
"path": {
".tag": "not_found"
}
}
}

 

Greg-DB

Are you sure that's the right path? Spaces shouldn't be an issue, and this works fine for me:

$ curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload \
>     --header "Authorization: Bearer <redacted>" \
>     --header "Dropbox-API-Arg: {\"path\": \"/DoNotDeleteFunctionalTest/TEST SPACES.txt\"}" \
>     --header "Content-Type: application/octet-stream" \
>     --data "some data here"

{"name": "TEST SPACES.txt", "path_lower": "/donotdeletefunctionaltest/test spaces.txt", "path_display": "/DoNotDeleteFunctionalTest/TEST SPACES.txt", "id": "id:25N5ksooX-sAAAAAAAKNTQ", "client_modified": "2017-01-24T23:15:48Z", "server_modified": "2017-01-24T23:15:49Z", "rev": "6e1bb021eccc7", "size": 14, "content_hash": "16458e974c3451720370bd39a3b62451470dd77666d44b550138dec8583ee4ea"}

$ curl -X POST https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download \
>     --header 'Authorization: Bearer <redacted>' \
>     --header 'Dropbox-API-Arg: {"path":"/DoNotDeleteFunctionalTest/TEST SPACES.txt"}'
some data here

You can use /2/files/list_folder[/continue] to list the contents of the folder, in order to make sure you get the right path.

 

Also, you mentioned it has three spaces in the name, but the path in the code you shared only has one. 

 

Finally, I redacted the access token from your post, but you should revoke it since you posted it publicly.