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Generated temporary link, content type is not correctly set

cristiz1992

Hi,

I've used the api to generate a temporary link and I've accessed it, but the Content-Type header is set to application/octet-stream instead of video/x-matroska. Obviously my file's extension is '.mkv'.

In the endpoint's description https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation#files-get_temporary_link it says that the mime type is set to the file's mime type.

Can you help me with this issue?

Thanks

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Greg-DB

Thanks! The endpoint itself does accept file ID, but the mime type detection is based on file extension, which is missing when a file ID is used.

As a workaround, please do use the file path if you need the specific Content-Type value there. I'll ask the team to look into if we can get this to return the expected value even when the file ID is used, but I can't guarantee if/when that would be.

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Greg-DB

I just tried this out and it is working properly for me. Can you share the code you're using? Thanks in advance!

cristiz1992

Hello,

I was calling the get_temporary_link endpoint using the fileid instead of the path.

I tried using the path and the content type header gets correctly set.

Does Dropbox support fileid for this endpoint? I saw in the regexp that you allow strings that start with id: ?

Thanks

Greg-DB

The correct Content-Type should be returned now, even when using file ID. Hope this helps!