Re: Dropbox V2 APIs

Ashwath

Hey,

So I have been looking into app authentication which can be found here.

I was able to hit the APIs by using the Bearer token(OAuth token). But when I try the basic authentication using the App token base64(app_key:app_secret) in the header, I get the following error.

 

Error in call to API function "file_requests/list:2": Invalid authorization value in HTTP header "Authorization": "Basic BASE64_ENCODED_STRING". Expecting "Bearer <oauth2-access-token>".

 

Where am I going wrong?

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

 

Greg-DB

The Dropbox API uses a few different auth types, as you linked to, but each particular endpoint only supports a particular set of auth types. You can see which auth type(s) any particular endpoint supports in the documentation for that endpoint, under the "AUTHENTICATION" section.

 

For example, for /2/file_requests/list_v2, only User Authentication is supported, not App Authentication. That being the case, it won't work if you send up a "Basic" value with the app key/secret. You need to send up a "Bearer" value being the access token for the user account for which you want to list the file requests.