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PONodeJS, Express server with ssl to use Dropbox API - 400 Bad Request
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copied!<p>I'm currently at y-hack, hacking up an app. I've never deployed an app to a server before, but I've managed to create an AWS EC2 instance, I created ca certificates with startssl, and now I'm trying to retrieve information using the DropBox API. </p> <p>My code works on my local machine just fine, but I keep getting a 400 Bad Request Error when I try to use the code on my server. Here's what my options look like:</p> <pre><code>var options = { key: fs.readFileSync('./cred/ssl.key'), cert: fs.readFileSync('./cred/ssl.crt'), ca: [fs.readFileSync('./cred/sub.class1.server.ca.pem')] } </code></pre> <p>And my server looks like:</p> <pre><code>https.createServer(options,app).listen(443, function(){ console.log('Express server listening on port ' + 443); }); </code></pre> <p>When I try authenticating I use the built-in dropbox javascript client and call:</p> <pre><code>var server = new Dropbox.AuthDriver.NodeServer(500); </code></pre> <p>All my ports are open and I'm able to access my website with HTTPS. I've verified that my SSL certificate is okay, but every time I make a request from my micro instance to DropBox, the page hangs. I tried:</p> <pre><code>curl https://www.dropbox.com/1/oauth2/authorize?client_id={client_id}&redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fsimplestever.com%3A8912%2Foauth_callback/&response_type=code/&state={state} </code></pre> <p>And I get this as a response (forgive the formatting): <h1>Error (400)</h1> It seems the app you were using submitted a bad request. If you would like to report this error to the app's developer, include the information below. <br/><br/><br/> More details for developers <code>Missing "response_type".</code></p> </p> <p>===================== I'm very new to this all and only taught myself today. I never used curl before... If anyone has any idea why I'm having these issues with the request, it would be incredibly helpful! Cheers!</p> <p>Edit: I curled with the escaped characters and it worked! ...which means the client may be broken? I'll replace it with a query and forget about the csrf variable for now to see if it works. </p> <p>Edit2: I ended up writing the authentication request using the request module and it worked! Just in the nick of time. Cheers!</p> <p>Edit3: I should give credit to the code I imitated. <a href="https://github.com/smarx/othw/blob/master/Node.js/app.js" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/smarx/othw/blob/master/Node.js/app.js</a></p>

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