client-api.txt

Client Registration
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1. The Dropbox client generates a host_key value and sends the following request to the Dropbox server.

POST /cli_link_nonce_gen HTTP/1.1
Host: client-lb.dropbox.com
Accept-Encoding: identity
Content-Length: 56
X-DBX-RETRY: 1
X-Dropbox-Locale: en_US
User-Agent: DropboxDesktopClient/34.4.22 (Linux; 4.12.9-200.fc25.x86_64; x64; en_US)
Connection: keep-alive
X-DBX-REQ-ID: 9b34fba8c581428f9397cfc45d0021c9
X-Dropbox-User-Agent: DropboxDesktopClient/34.4.22 (Linux; 4.12.9-200.fc25.x86_64; x64; en_US)
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

host_key=5e7effe2d7c6107c213a09d915b27214&cli_nonce=None


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2017 07:24:34 GMT
Content-Type: text/plain
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store
Pragma: no-cache
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
X-Db-Timeout: 60
X-Dropbox-Request-Id: b81e5c1bec11c0efad94a0e4efd99c5a
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Server-Response-Time: 24

{"nonce": "b6f9b0fb5101eb41714ed12d0dfd50d1", "chillout": 4.097595663856157e-08, "nonce_uri": "https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link_nonce?nonce=b6f9b0fb5101eb41714ed12d0dfd50d1"}

2. The Dropbox client opens the nonce_uri link in the brower, and then authorizes the client to connect to the signed-in Dropbox account.

Fetch List
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To be done.