Hi Box Team,I have a question regarding how API calls are counted towards the license-based rate limit when downloading a file.According to the File Download Guide, when I download a file, the SDK (or my app) first sends:GET https://api.box.com/2.0/files/{file_id}/contentThen Box responds with a 302 redirect, and my client follows it by making:GET https://dl.boxcloud.com/d/1/[long-random-string]/downloadMy questions are: How many API calls are counted towards the license-based rate limit in this scenario — just the initial GET /files/{file_id}/content request, or both the API request and the subsequent dl.boxcloud.com download request? If the initial API request results in a 429 (rate limit exceeded) response, does this 429 request itself count against the license-based API call allocation? Thanks in advance for clarifying!

Question about license-based rate limit counting for file download and 429 requests

Hi Box Team,

I have a question regarding how API calls are counted towards the license-based rate limit when downloading a file.

According to the File Download Guide, when I download a file, the SDK (or my app) first sends:

Then Box responds with a 302 redirect, and my client follows it by making:

My questions are:

How many API calls are counted towards the license-based rate limit in this scenario —

just the initial GET /files/{file_id}/content request, or both the API request and the subsequent dl.boxcloud.com download request?
If the initial API request results in a 429 (rate limit exceeded) response, does this 429 request itself count against the license-based API call allocation?

Thanks in advance for clarifying!

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