[Evolution-hackers] Exchange OWA using Cookie Authorisation

["Peter Newman" <Peter Newman cdu edu au>]

Hi

Something that was reported a while ago here:
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evolution-list/2006-June/msg00130.html

And is also a problem for Entourage and is discussed on a MS
knowledgebase:
  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909268

Trying to access an OWA like this
 
http://webmail.atsomeunidomain/CookieAuth.dll?GetLogon?url=%2F&reason=0
will set cookie names cadata and sessionid and populate with data.

And if I disable cookies in Firefox then obviously login fails with the
same behaviour as evolution 2.8.1 and earlier versions.

Unfortunately I can't get the admin at my wife's university to do the kb
workaround so it looks like some hacking needs to be done.

Any tips on where to start i.e. what cvs source branch or should I just
request the functionality...?

Regards
Pete

Peter Newman
Library Systems and IT Coordinator
Library and Information Access
Charles Darwin University