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.  :-(
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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