Question

The script I used fetched a file from

https://www.dropbox.com/browse_plain/$REMOTEDIR?no_js=true

which now returns:

HTTP/1.1 302 FOUND

Server: nginx/0.7.63

Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 17:02:44 GMT

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Transfer-Encoding: chunked

Connection: keep-alive

location: /home

pragma: no-cache

cache-control: no-cache

Found

<h1>Found</h1>

<p>The resource was found at <a href="/home">/home</a>;

you should be redirected
automatically.

<hr noshade>

<div align="right">WSGI Server</div>

Whereas the script has a method to parse a div from the source.

1. Can anyone confirm whether or not they have this issue with file fetching scripts? If not what method(s) are you using since there’s no official API?

Answer 1

The script you are using is not respecting redirects. Generally browsers will see the location: /home header and make another request to that URL.