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Fix for "HTTP Request" Not Working with Google Drive Links

I've been troubleshooting why Tasker's "HTTP Request" action fails to download from a Google Drive link, even though "HTTP Get" works perfectly. After some digging, I found a simple fix that makes "HTTP Request" behave like "HTTP Get" in this case:

When using the "HTTP Request" action to download a file (like an image) from a URL such as:

https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=YOUR_FILE_ID

Make sure you do both of the following:

  1. Enable "Automatically Follow Redirects"

  2. Add a Mime type custom header in the Headers field:

Accept: image/png

You can also add:

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0

…to better emulate a browser.

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