Hugo: Add remote support in resources.Get

[akshaybabloo]

It'll be nice to have a getCSS function for external URL where the caching are not in our hands and also if we want to make the CSS an inline version instead of adding a link to the external site. Maybe by doing something like:

{{ $externalCSS := .getCSS "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Space+Mono:400,700" }}
<style>
     {{ $externalCSS.Content | safeCSS }}
</style>

[bep]

I agree about the use case, and it has been discussed, and I guess it will eventually be implemented. But we have a fairly big API as it is, so I don't think we're going to add special getCSS etc. funcs. What I had in mind would be something like this:

{{ $externalCSS := resources.Get "https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Space+Mono:400,700" }}
<style>
     {{ $externalCSS.Content | safeCSS }} Or .RelPermalink would also work.
</style>

Which would work like you would expect it to. There may be licensing issues with the above construct, but I'm not sure Hugo should be the gatekeeper of those problems.

[akshaybabloo]

Ya that'll be fine too

[bep]

I can also add to the above that I would also love to, eventually, move getJSON and getCSV into that same function ... if possible.

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