Does Session.authorize! still work?

RISCfuture / dropbox

An easy-to-use client library for the official Dropbox API.

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Does Session.authorize! still work? #38

Closed kimptoc closed 13 years ago

kimptoc commented 13 years ago

Hi,

I am trying to use the user/password route via the authorize! method but it does not seem to be getting past the login - get redirected back, even though I can see the correct details being sent (using Charles).

I guess its not the Dropbox preferred route these days :(

Thanks, Chris

RISCfuture commented 13 years ago

To be fair, it was never a Dropbox preferred route. Dropbox claimns that you never store the user's login and password. The authorize! method is a hack, using screen-scraping, that will break any time Dropbox changes the layout of their login page. I don't really recommend it's use in any production system.

kimptoc commented 13 years ago

Thanks and agreed - just thought I'd try for a command line play with the gem.

RISCfuture commented 13 years ago

Solved by removing the authorize! method :)

kimptoc commented 13 years ago

Great, thanks.