Dropbox upload fails with cURL timeout error

Hello @florianziegler
Yes you totally right, it’s really just a workaround solution and will be fixed in the next update.
Thank you!

@duongcuong96 ??

@duongcuong96

So maybe it would be a good idea to do this a a quick fix and publish the new release in some near future, since the plugin doesn’t work currently…? ??

WpHttpClient.php: Dropbox-API: cURL error 28: Operation timed out after 5001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received

I have the same mistake. When will there be an update? Currently you cannot use the plugin, or?

A few days ago friends said that you can no longer make backups because an error always occurs. Maybe I was hoping for a more temporary bug. But the bug is from the plugin, right?
A friend had already asked the server host and they didn’t change anything on the server.

@djpd please back to page 1 then you will see the solution.
Thank you!

Ah ok. Thanks very much.
I just thought that this was just a temporary solution and that it would have to be reversed after the next update.
Since the problem will affect many, I thought that an update will be available soon. But if you say it is worth installing this short-term solution first, because no update is to be expected at first.
Greetings

Any update as to when this fix will be incorporated into the main plugin, and rolled-out, please?

@duongcuong96 I tried the fix you recommended, but it doesn’t seem to solve the problem. The tokens are still expiring every 20 to 30 seconds.
What else can be done here?

[11-Oct-2021 10:01:08] Archivgr??e ist 834,94 MB.
[11-Oct-2021 10:01:08] 20273 Dateien mit 1,03 GB im Archiv.
[11-Oct-2021 10:01:08] 1. Versuche, das Backup zur Dropbox zu senden …
[11-Oct-2021 10:01:08] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:01:09] Authentifiziert mit der Dropbox von: Support Webkinder
[11-Oct-2021 10:01:09] Hochladen zur Dropbox hat begonnen …
[11-Oct-2021 10:01:09] Beginne neue Datei-Upload Session
[11-Oct-2021 10:01:39] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:02:06] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:02:36] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:03:06] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:03:36] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:04:05] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:04:34] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:05:04] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:05:33] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:06:02] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:06:31] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:06:58] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:07:28] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:07:57] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:08:27] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:08:57] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:09:27] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:09:56] Token has expired; new token has been obtained
[11-Oct-2021 10:10:02] Upload beendet: Es wurden 835 MB hochgeladen
[11-Oct-2021 10:10:04] Backup übertragen zu /Backups/fructus/fructus-weekly_2021-10-11_09-56-05_HHCC3VSY01.tar.gz

Hello @rastiwebkinder
The message you see is just a notice, will be removed in the next update, the backup should work fine and your file already got uploaded to Dropbox according to the log.

duongcuong96’s solution fixed my problem (well, 1st retry anyway). I had no idea how to install a php plugin, so installed the code snippet into /public_html/wp-content/themes/twentyten/functions.php as suggested.

hey @duongcuong96
is there any news on when the new release is coming?

@duongcuong96
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Amateur question
In theme fuction.php, where should we insert the lines of code, at the beginning, at the end or wherever?
Thank you for your reply

@10rjulienk21 anywhere in the file will work.

It worked really well. thank you so much

extend-wp-http-timeout.zip does not work on my multisite installation, the timeout stay at 2sec.

The workaround is to use ‘http_request_args’ filter and check the dropbox’s url to avoid changing the timeout globally
If dont upload to dropbox you can check if $parsed_args[‘user-agent’] contain ‘BackWPup’

add_filter( 'http_request_args', 'custom_http_request_args' ,10,2);
function custom_http_request_args( $parsed_args, $url )
{
    if($url==='https://content.dropboxapi.com/2/files/upload_session/append_v2') {
        $parsed_args['timeout']=60;
    }
    return $parsed_args;
}