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nautilus-dropbox package

  1. Bug #1016559
  2. Comment #21

Comment 21 for bug 1016559

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Raphaël Hertzog (hertzog) wrote : Re: [Bug 1016559] Re: nautilus-dropbox installation hangs while downloading

On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, David Euresti wrote:
> So it turns out it has to do with redirecting http to https and the
> downloader is actually trying to read the encrypted data. We're working
> on a workaround that won't redirect to https so that the current code
> will work. And we'll also put out a new package that will fix the
> problem soon. Sorry about that.

Weird, I tried to patch the wrapper to download directly using https URL
but this doesn't seem to help.

And strangely using https URL directly with curl returns 404 errors?

$ curl -I https://www.dropbox.com/download?plat=x86
HTTP/1.1 404 NOT FOUND
Server: nginx/1.0.14
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 20:07:06 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
set-cookie: gvc=MTIzNzE2MTEyMDQ2OTUyOTI0MjQ0MjgyMTgyMTk2NTA4MTczNjYy; expires=Sat, 24-Jun-2017 20:07:06 GMT; Path=/; httponly
x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
pragma: no-cache
cache-control: no-cache

Cheers,
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