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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OneDrive access from Linux using webdavs
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2015 09:04:10
Message-Id: 8922080.l82kHxlXtP@andromeda
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: OneDrive access from Linux using webdavs by Mick
1 On Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:25:08 AM Mick wrote:
2 > On Friday 28 Aug 2015 12:55:37 you wrote:
3 > > Hi All,
4 > >
5 > > Apparently OneDrive, the Microsoft cloud storage, is using the webdav
6 > > protocol. However, to effect authentication OneDrive uses redirection to
7 > > a
8 > > different URL, which breaks Linux connections to it. This page explains
9 > > someone's attempts using the previous MS offering of SkyDrive:
10 > >
11 > > http://blog.lazut.in/2012/12/skydrive-webdav-access.html
12 > >
13 > > I've tried the suggestions using both cadaver and dolphin. Both failed to
14 > > connect. I have not used net-fs/davfs2 to mount OneDrive, but I read in
15 > > the above link that davfs2 does not handle redirects either.
16 > >
17 > > Would you know of some trick to allow me to access onedrive from Linux?
18 > > Read only access will do for the use case I have in mind, which is to
19 > > browse and download some files from a customer's shared folder.
20 > >
21 > >
22 > > PS. I've also found 'onedrive-d' a python script/program, which does not
23 > > seem to be available in portage, or any overlays. Do you know if there's
24 > > an ebuild somewhere for it? However, I think that this is for synch'ing a
25 > > local fs to OneDrive - something I am not necessarily interested in.
26 >
27 > What?! No-one on this list had to use OneDrive? I can't believe it. :p
28
29 Never used OneDrive and will also refuse to.
30 My customers tend to dislike putting data on publicly available systems :)
31
32 My experience with WebDav and products from MS is that they don't work
33 reliably anymore.
34
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36 Joost

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