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Synology DSM Access any user's downloads

2016-06-07 4 min read devops Sven Gehring
A few weeks ago, I decided to build a little tool for my Synology Download Station, since I was not quite satisfied with the features DS Download offered me for simple monitoring. However, while testing out the API as it was documented in official API docs, I stumbled upon some rather unusual behaviour, that allows you to access details of any download task, even if it does not belong to the user you’re authenticated as. Continue reading