If i want to download a file from a dropbox url my http header range is ignored:
httpRequest = new HttpGet(url.toURI());
httpRequest.addHeader("Range", "bytes=" + startPos + "-" + dwnInfo.getStopRange());
httpRequest.addHeader("Accept-Encoding", "");
So instead of making my file download in x chunks of 5mb for ex, the connection ignores the specified range and it downloads x chunks of Y mb, where y is the full size of the file.
Downloading from an amazon storange link i don't have any problems.
Anyone else encountered this situation ? This only happens from some days ago. This wasn't a issue until now.
I tried to look on dropbox dev page but didn't see anything that specifies if they removed the accepted range on urls
The link you gave is to an HTML page (total size ~46KB), so even if range retrieval worked there, it wouldn't be very useful.
Per https://www.dropbox.com/help/201/en, you can turn a share link into a direct link to the file by changing the domain to dl.dropboxusercontent.com, so your link becomes https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/5c7atlfmacjf3qn/02%20Armin%20Van%20Buuren%20-%20A%20State%20Of%20Trance%20Year%20Mix%202013%20%28Cd%202%29.mp3, and range retrieval works for that URL.
(Here I'm using httpie.)
$ http get https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/5c7atlfmacjf3qn/02%20Armin%20Van%20Buuren%20-%20A%20State%20Of%20Trance%20Year%20Mix%202013%20%28Cd%202%29.mp3 range:bytes=0-0
HTTP/1.1 206 PARTIAL CONTENT
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 1
Content-Type: audio/mpeg
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:53:32 GMT
Server: nginx
accept-ranges: bytes
cache-control: max-age=0
content-range: bytes 0-0/146014047
etag: 346n
pragma: public
set-cookie: uc_session=2cqmevWxG8lmGt743KMXebc23dRC5iuZEfm8Etx6V2VShWk60jmnUJajFnH1wRG4; Domain=dropboxusercontent.com; Path=/; secure; httponly
x-dropbox-request-id: 2f0c5986a62cf2f0b06af1704ece5bd7
x-server-response-time: 535
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