Deployment: Web Start links and Dropbox?

daniel · July 18, 2013 3:26AM

I'm not sure if this is intended or not but the webstart link builder doesn't work to launch a file if you have the file on a dropbox folder or Google drive.

It's not a major issue as I've found github to be a viable alternative.

steve · July 24, 2013 3:45AM

If you can get a direct http link to the IOK file (rather than a link to the page with a download button), it will work. Otherwise you should stick with the alternative.

tjbate · July 29, 2013 4:07PM

Only the Public Folder of your Dropbox has an option to generate a public-facing URL you should be able to use. You can certainly use this method to send IOK files in your Public Folder to anyone via a the Dropbox-generated link in an e-mail...no website required!

daniel · July 30, 2013 5:54AM

Ok, got it to work.

Just that I had a newer dropbox account where they stopped putting in public folders by default.

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