Allow user to specify User-Agent #3421
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This commit enables users to specify the User-Agent header used when pandoc requests a document from a URL. This is done by setting an environment variable. For instance, one can do: USER_AGENT="..." ./pandoc -f html -t markdown http://example.com Signed-off-by: Thenaesh Elango <thenaeshelango@gmail.com>
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Thanks. I don't understand the build failure with one ghc version on travis, but we'll figure that out next. |
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Fixes #3384
When requesting a document from a URL, a user can now specify the User-Agent by doing something like:
This should fix the problem of Pandoc appearing as an "unsupported browser" to some websites. :)