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authorJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2017-10-15 22:11:43 -0700
committerJohn MacFarlane <jgm@berkeley.edu>2017-10-15 22:13:15 -0700
commitd8804f4747b0214a3aca45ecdf6cb2f6a9d09646 (patch)
tree67e89f8779b4736431885f783d3e9476de660e97 /MANUAL.txt
parent2f66d57616c72ad82c64cf632a10d3e842eab533 (diff)
App: added --request-header option.
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@@ -130,10 +130,11 @@ pandoc will fetch the content using HTTP:
pandoc -f html -t markdown http://www.fsf.org
-It is possible to supply a custom User-Agent string when requesting a
-document from a URL, by setting an environment variable:
+It is possible to supply a custom User-Agent string or other
+header when requesting a document from a URL:
- USER_AGENT="Mozilla/5.0" pandoc -f html -t markdown http://www.fsf.org
+ pandoc -f html -t markdown --request-header User-Agent:"Mozilla/5.0" \
+ http://www.fsf.org
If multiple input files are given, `pandoc` will concatenate them all (with
blank lines between them) before parsing. This feature is disabled for
@@ -728,6 +729,13 @@ General writer options
`--resource-path=.:test` will search the working directory
and the `test` subdirectory, in that order.
+`--request-header=`*NAME*`:`*VAL*
+
+: Set the request header *NAME* to the value *VAL* when making
+ HTTP requests (for example, when a URL is given on the
+ command line, or when resources used in a document must be
+ downloaded).
+
Options affecting specific writers
----------------------------------