I need to read a file from dropbox using PHP. I am running curl_exec. My
PHP curl code works when running on a PHP hosting site ( a2 hosting ). But
the remote web service ( dropbox ) responds with "error 4xx" when I run the
code from PHP on the IBM i.
How to track down the cause?
I am using the Dropbox web service APIs to retrieve the list of items in a
folder. Then the code reads the contents of a file in the dropbox folder.
Here is the PHP code. It is using curl to access the
content.dropbox.com/2/files/download web service. This identical code runs
ok on the a2 hosting PHP hosting site. But when I run it on two different
IBM i PHP servers I get back a "not found" message from dropbox.
another thing. I am able to use the dropbox list_folder web service to get
the list of items in a dropbox folder. That works from IBM i PHP using
curl. Only the files/download api fails. And it only fails on IBM i. )
<!-- getTextFile.php -->
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<h2>get text file from dropbox. v1.5</h2>
<?php
$textFile = '/test_upload.txt' ;
echo 'textFile:' . $textFile . '<br>' ;
$rv = getTextFile( ) ;
echo $rv . '<br>' ;
// -------------------------------- getTextFile
------------------------------
function getTextFile( )
{
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "
https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/download";);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0 ) ;
$headers = array();
$headers[] = "Authorization: Bearer xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
$headers[] = "Dropbox-Api-Arg: {\"path\": \"/test_upload.txt\"}";
$headers[] = 'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8' ;
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
if (curl_errno($ch)) {
echo 'Error:' . curl_error($ch);
}
curl_close ($ch);
return $result ;
}
?>
</body>
</html>
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