Some of you may have read this post over at Lifehacker about the bandwidth limitations that Dropbox puts on the public folder a user shares. Well, since my Dropbox CDN plugin uses the public folder of your Dropbox account, I’m going to be including a feature that will seamlessly check to make sure that you haven’t hit your Dropbox limit before using the plugin settings.
I hope to have this feature released sometime this weekend. I’ll keep you posted.
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Hello Chris, one of the problem using Dropbox, some offices, colleges bans sites like Dropbox, Rapidshare … So our site will not displayed properly in such places! So please write article on using Google Apps engine as CDN or please make plugin to do so! Thank you very much
@Rajesh Namase
I do realize this and I’m working on a way that I can ask the user’s browser if it’s able to get to the dropbox URL but it’s doing this without the browser thinking it’s an exploit attempt that’s the trick. I hope to have this resolved soon though.
Thanks once again Chris, if problem is solved then surely I will use dropbox as CDN. I am waiting for it because dropbox is banned in our college.
Hi, any plan to update on this issue.
@Rajesh
I’ve tried a few attempts at this and it’s not 100%. The issue you run into is, you need to check if the client viewing the site can hit dropbox, and the only way to do this is via Javascript…and calling an external domain with Javascript is a security risk and is blocked by the client as a Cross Site Scripting attempt, therefore being blocked. I haven’t ruled out including this option/check, however I need a good and reliable way to do this.
Thanks,
Chris