Sharepoint Requests (Fedauth cookie)

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@windexoriginal that would be too logical for microsoft, i guess they want to track you first hehe.

found the solution:
sharepoint redirects you for the first download url and gives you the fedauth cookie in the first response.
You have to take it and the actual download location and start a new request like this when redirected:

          302 ->
            pdf_url |> IO.inspect()
            parsed_uri = URI.parse(pdf_url)

            # get the path of the real download
            download_location =
              headers
              |> Enum.find(fn {header_name, _} -> header_name == "Location" end)
              |> elem(1)

            download_url =
              "#{parsed_uri.scheme}://#{parsed_uri.host}#{download_location}"

            fed_auth_cookie =
              headers
              |> Enum.find(fn {header_name, _} -> header_name == "Set-Cookie" end)
              |> elem(1)

            download_pdf(download_url, fed_auth_cookie)

i guess this behaviour is already baked in to the python request lib

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