On Wednesday 02 Sep 2015 09:06:00 Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 02, 2015 7:01:24 AM Mick wrote:
> > On Wednesday 02 Sep 2015 00:04:19 Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > > On Tuesday, September 01, 2015 11:25:08 AM Mick wrote:
> > > > On Friday 28 Aug 2015 12:55:37 you wrote:
> > > > > Hi All,
> > > > > 
> > > > > Apparently OneDrive, the Microsoft cloud storage, is using the
> > > > > webdav protocol.  However, to effect authentication OneDrive uses
> > > > > redirection to a different URL, which breaks Linux connections to
> > > > > it.  This page explains someone's attempts using the previous MS
> > > > > offering of SkyDrive:
> > > > > 
> > > > > http://blog.lazut.in/2012/12/skydrive-webdav-access.html
> > > > > 
> > > > > I've tried the suggestions using both cadaver and dolphin.  Both
> 
> failed
> 
> > > > > to connect.  I have not used net-fs/davfs2 to mount OneDrive, but I
> > > > > read in the above link that davfs2 does not handle redirects
> > > > > either.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Would you know of some trick to allow me to access onedrive from
> 
> Linux?
> 
> > > > > Read only access will do for the use case I have in mind, which is
> > > > > to browse and download some files from a customer's shared folder.
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > PS. I've also found 'onedrive-d' a python script/program, which
> > > > > does not seem to be available in portage, or any overlays.  Do you
> > > > > know if there's an ebuild somewhere for it?  However, I think that
> > > > > this is for synch'ing a local fs to OneDrive - something I am not
> > > > > necessarily interested in.
> > > > 
> > > > What?!  No-one on this list had to use OneDrive?  I can't believe it.
> :
> :p
> :
> > > I've had to but wasn't able to :) Only for a little while I got it to
> > > work with an old version of onedrive-d until it stopped working. I
> > > decided to give the last usable version[1] (that's the one they're
> > > using with Ubuntu, the one on the new repo says it's not usable) a try
> > > but it has python deps that are not on gentoo or conflict.
> > > 
> > > https://github.com/xybu/onedrive-d-old/tree/future
> > 
> > Thank you Fernando.
> > 
> > So, I take it that no direct webdav based access is possible at this
> > stage.
> 
> I
> 
> > was hoping that some structured URL invocation would get me there, but it
> > seems this won't be the case.  :-(
> 
> There must be but I never got it to work and it's not documented so it's
> subject to change. There's documented REST API[1] I got this from
> Clementine's code:
> 
> https://login.live.com/oauth20_token.srf?client_id=0000000040111F16&client_
> secret=w2ClguSX0jG56cBl1CeUniypTBRjXt2Z&grant_type=refresh_token&refresh_to
> ken=
> 
> If you install clementine and login to onedrive you'll have a refresh_token
> on the config file. Append it to that url and it'll give you an access
> token good for five minutes. Then to list the contents of a folder:
> 
> https://apis.live.net/v5.0/folder.<cid>.<id>/files?access_token=<access_tok
> en>
> 
> to get a file (this will give you a direct url on the source field):
> 
> https://apis.live.net/v5.0/file.<cid>.<id>?access_token=<access_token>
> 
> 
> Maybe you can play with the webdav urls and the access token and see if you
> can get it to work.

Thanks Fernando!  I will give this a spin and see if I can get it to work.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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