Question

Cross authentication of a dropbox user using Access token and secret not happening.

Elaborating my Question:

1. authenticate the user in my IOS app
2. In Ios app , I retrieve access token and secret from MPOAuthCredentialConcreteStore *credentials.

3. get the access token from credentials->acccessToken and similarly the secret.

4. Now if I feed these values into another app outside IOS which uses python sdk for dropbox. I get a error message “Invalid token”.

But, interestingly the reverse process from step 1 to 4 works. i.e get access token and secret from python SDK and feed it to my IOS app by using

[dbSession updateAccessToken:@"xxxxxxxxx" accessTokenSecret:@"YYYYYYYYYYY" forUserId:@"12345678"];

and now i can assess user’s dropbox account. Any idea as to whats going wrong? Is there a difference between MPoauth and Oauth? I believe MPoauth is just a wrapper right?

is there any other way to get the access token and secret?

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

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