iOS install popup did not appear / Invalid URL. Please double check your app url / The app you were looking for is not available or accessible anymore about appbox-iosappswirelessinstallation HOT 18 CLOSED

@vineetchoudhary That's awesome, thank you!

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Hi @toseefkhilji ,

Thanks for the suggestion. But, I think, the AppBox web interface will not be able to directly access files from Github's private repo. For this to work we might need to develop and manage a complete backend for AppBox. In that case, I think S3 will be a much better option than Github private repo.

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I'm having the same problem.

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Hi, Looks like Dropbox made some changes in URL sharing permissions. Please logout and login again to resolve the issue. If that doesn't work try to login with another account. I'll update here if I found something.

https://www.dropboxforum.com/t5/Create-upload-and-share/Shared-Link-quot-scl-quot-to-quot-s-quot/td-p/689070

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Not very good news from Support:

We are currently changing the way users create shared links. All new links now have the /scl/ token instead of /s/. We have never supported modifying links the way you are doing it (using dl.dropboxusercontent.com), and at the moment this functionality won't work on the new /scl/ links. Our engineers haven't committed to supporting this in the future, but things may change.

This rollout will kill AppBox. 😞

iOS internal implementation doesn't allow any redirection (301/302) to the app manifest file. And with this dropbox change, we'll not be able to use dl.dropboxusercontent.com. The /scl/ token URL will change to some random cdn URL which we can't guess. So, there will be at least one redirection in between. I'll check this if there is any way around it.

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Is there no possibility to consider other sites? Or Dropbox is the only way?

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Hi @RedWizard89 ,

We explored some options a few years back but non of them provide a direct download option(without any redirect).

Check this original issue about supporting other storage options - #82

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New response from the Dropbox team. I think they are going to support direct download via the dl.dropboxusercontent.com domain.

Hi everyone, thank you for providing feedback in this post and bringing to our attention the issue with dl.dropbox.com and dl.dropboxusercontent.com not working for /scl/fi/ shared links.

Our engineering team is now aware of the issue and is actively working on a fix to restore the functionality that’s been mentioned. We expect this to be available within the week, and we’ll continue to keep you informed of the fix status in this forum post.

As we continue to roll out the centralized /scl/ link model in the future, we’ll continue to monitor this post and the community forum for any additional feedback.

Thank you again for the feedback and input in this post, and sincere apologies for the disruption the issue has caused.

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Update from Dropbox team -

Hi everyone,

As an update on the dropboxusercontent issue, the fix is now available. For your shared links that look like "www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/...", you should now be able to generate a direct download of the content using either "dl.dropbox.com/scl/fi/..." or "dl.dropboxusercontent.com/scl/fi/..."

But this is still not working for the share URL generated via Dropbox SDK. Which AppBox use to generate share URLs automatically.

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For now, created an incident on the status page. Also, you'll see a different error message on the AppBox Installation Website instead of the invalid URL message (thanks @BodyBookApps).

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@vineetchoudhary is it normal for this to also affect applications that have been uploaded long ago? None of my apps are working anymore, some uploaded more than an year ago. Manually checking the links in the appinfo.json and in the manifest is showing all links as being valid, yet i'm getting the error about "The app you were looking for is not available or accessible anymore. It might has been deleted. Please refer to your app developer for any question."

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Hi @radubogdan2k, It should not affect the existing applications. Can you please share the application link here - vineetchoudhary[at]live.in

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@vineetchoudhary Thanks for the quick reply, I sent the email

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Thanks @radubogdan2k, These percentage encoded URL was completely out of my mind. I deployed a fix on the installation page for percentage encoded URLs. All of your existing links should work fine now. I'll keep your app link for future testing before making any deployment to production.

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@vineetchoudhary : We faced the same issue.
I tried with another old account, and it worked! 🎉🎊

Thank you.
But for the future, we need to check other options as well. Github private repo?

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Hi all,

I created a middleware service (install.getappbox.com) to handle the new Dropbox share URL. Can you guys please check if your existing app (with old or new format share URL) is working fine? To check, replace the web.getappbox.com installation web page domain with web2.getappbox.com. After this try to install your app and check if you are able to install it without any issues.

So, if your app installation URL is https://web.getappbox.com/?url=/s/xxxxxxxx/appinfo.json then for the new web app it will be https://web2.getappbox.com/?url=/s/xxxxxxxx/appinfo.json.

Same for the new format URL. If the URL is https://web.getappbox.com/?url=/scl/fi/xxxxxxx/appinfo.json?rlkey=xxxxxx then for the new web app it will be https://web2.getappbox.com/?url=/scl/fi/xxxxxxx/appinfo.json?rlkey=xxxxxx

I'll also do some testing and if everything goes well, tomorrow afternoon IST, I'll push these changes to the prod installation web page (web.getappbox.com).

With this new middleware, you will see install.getappbox.com would like to install "App" instead of dl.dropboxusercontent.com. Your file is still on Dropbox but the installation page access it via middleware to remove query parameters. because iOS itms-services doesn't allow query parameters in the manifest.plist file. This middleware service code is available here - https://github.com/getappbox/install-helper.

If you are not able to install the app let me know. Or please share the application link here - vineetchoudhary[at]live.in

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Hi all,

All the above changes in available in prod. You should be able to install the app with the new Dropbox share URL format. I'm closing this issue. Please feel free to reopen it or create new issue if you still face some issue.

Note - All new format share URL generated in the month of June is not supported. New format share URL generated after the 1st of July will work fine.

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