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deefour on June 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Dropbox' Public/ folders will be phased out soon

Dropbox support offered up the ?dl=1 querystring as the solution to permanent, public URLs when I emailed them, but I have the same issue with the fact that the files are forced to download. If they're going to stick with Dropbox branded preview for public URLs, I'd like to at least see a similar ?view=1 querystring to keep images/pdfs/etc.. displaying directly in the browser.

Gormo on June 16, 2012 | [–]

Delete the '?dl=1' parameter, and change the URL from 'www.dropbox.com' to 'dl.dropbox.com'.

This yields a proper direct link to the file, but the directory tree is still inaccessible.

runn1ng on June 17, 2012 | | [–]

That's perfect, thanks!

sirclueless on June 15, 2012 | [–]

The problem there is that it doesn't solve their hotlinking problem.

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