[gentoo-user] OneDrive access from Linux using webdavs

[gentoo-user] OneDrive access from Linux using webdavs

[Mick]

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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.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: OneDrive access from Linux using webdavs

[Mick]

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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

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OneDrive access from Linux using webdavs

[Fernando Rodriguez]

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
-- 
Fernando Rodriguez

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OneDrive access from Linux using webdavs

[Mick]

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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.  :-(
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OneDrive access from Linux using webdavs

[Fernando Rodriguez]

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_token=

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_token>

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.

-- 
Fernando Rodriguez

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OneDrive access from Linux using webdavs

[J. Roeleveld]

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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

Never used OneDrive and will also refuse to.
My customers tend to dislike putting data on publicly available systems :)

My experience with WebDav and products from MS is that they don't work 
reliably anymore.

--
Joost

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OneDrive access from Linux using webdavs

[Mick]

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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.

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Regards,
Mick

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