Hosting updates via DropBox

I've been looking at using wBuild and wyUpdate ideally to host updates on DropBox. However it seems that the need for wyBuild and wyUpdate to substitute %File% in the update URL prevents this working.

With DropBox if you have a shared folder e.g. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2kys5fdsfsf3jqp/JPghdt

then you expect that files and folders within this shared folder would use the same URL, however they don't. They end up with the last part of the URL being different fr each file or folder

e.g. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/2kys5fdsfsf3jqp/AAqds/MyFile.zip

Is there anyway to make wyUpdate work with DropBox ?

If not could an alternative strategy be considered as a feature request to allow the use of DropBox ?

This is an odd case, that I don't see us supporting anytime because (a) this is a unique problem to a very specific file storage site (b) DropBox isn't typically used to host "web server files" (that is, files that are required by your website to function -- you wouldn't host your images on DropBox either), and (c) this would add a massive amount of manual work for you if we were to allow you to easily make arbitrary URLs for every *.wyu file.

You can always manually alter the *.wys file to correctly reference the arbitrary URLs, but that seems like a big hassle. Why not just use a dedicated host?

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