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DanEdmund
New member | Level 2
18 days ago
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Direct download using android java

Until recently my android app was able to download txt files from my dropbox account using this 
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/bbbejnmpch8fve1/lastsequence.txt?dl=0
However I now get java.io.FileNotFoundException
If I log in using a web browser I can see the file is still there and can be download via the browser fine.
What has changes that is stopping the above url from fetching the file. Perhaps the service has changed.
I have the basic free account which has served me well since 2016 for this function.
I am not using the API but android java Http and was getting the contents from the returned resonse using getinputstream. How it returns file not found.
Any help or advice would be helpful, thanks.

  • Thanks for the report! We looked into this and found an issue affecting this link. It should be working again now. Please try again and let us know if it's still not working for you though.

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  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    17 days ago

    Thanks for the report! We looked into this and found an issue affecting this link. It should be working again now. Please try again and let us know if it's still not working for you though.

  • DanEdmund's avatar
    DanEdmund
    New member | Level 2
    17 days ago

    Yes I can confirm it is now working again. Excellent quick fix thanks.
    Would you happen to know how long it has been broken?

  • Greg-DB's avatar
    Greg-DB
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    17 days ago

    No, unfortunately I don't have information on the timeline for this.

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