Re: Pandoc - gitlab - authentication token

[John MacFarlane <jgm-TVLZxgkOlNX2fBVCVOL8/A@public.gmane.org>]

I've just added this.  (And removed the hacky sensitivity
to the USER_AGENT env variable.)

>Perhaps a more principled approach would be to add a
>CLI option that could be repeated and that worked like
>the current -V option:
>
>   pandoc --request-header USER_AGENT="Blah blah"
>     --request-header PRIVATE-TOKEN="XXXXX"
>
>This would give the needed flexibility...
>
>+++ Rajko Albrecht [Oct 14 17 00:59 ]:
>>  Hi, I searched for days and didn't found a solution.
>>  I generate pdf from a gitlab project wiki. The markdown files are
>>  localy checked out, so no problem using
>>  pandoc wiki/home.md -t latex -o example.pdf
>>  But the problem starts when the md has images insight which are
>>  rendered by gitlab on access (pipline status etc.). Then I just get the
>>  error
>>  [pandoc warning] Could not find image
>>  'https://gitlab.xxxx/coverage.svg', skipping ....
>>  I tried various variants giving the authentication information to
>>  pandoc, .netrc isn't read (and not usefull), gitlab requires a  header
>>  "PRIVATE-TOKEN: XXXXXXXXX" for download. With curl I can set it and it
>>  works. Using wrapper script eg pipline does not work 'cause wiki pages
>>  are stored inside a git.
>>  So - is there any solution giving pandoc authorisation tokens on
>>  commandline for retrieving remote content? I didn't found something in
>>  any documentation...
>>  Bye
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