1 files changed, 25 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/sisudoc/spine.d b/src/sisudoc/spine.d
index ee3bcef..af4119c 100755
--- a/src/sisudoc/spine.d
+++ b/src/sisudoc/spine.d
@@ -860,12 +860,31 @@ string program_name = "spine";
   /+ ↓ track extracted zip pod temp directories for cleanup +/
   mixin spineExtractZipPod;
   ZipPodResult[] _zip_pod_extractions;
+  DownloadResult[] _url_downloads;
+  /+ ↓ pre-process args: resolve URL arguments to local temp files +/
+  string[] _resolved_args;
+  foreach (arg; args[1..$]) {
+    if (isUrl(arg)) {
+      auto _dlr = downloadZipUrl(arg);
+      if (_dlr.ok) {
+        _url_downloads ~= _dlr;
+        _resolved_args ~= _dlr.local_path;
+        if (_opt_action.vox_gt_1) {
+          writeln("downloaded: ", arg, " -> ", _dlr.local_path);
+        }
+      } else {
+        writeln("ERROR >> Download failed: ", arg, " - ", _dlr.error_msg);
+      }
+    } else {
+      _resolved_args ~= arg;
+    }
+  }
   ConfComposite _siteConfig;
   if (
     _opt_action.require_processing_files
     && _opt_action.config_path_set.empty
   ) {
-    foreach(arg; args[1..$]) {
+    foreach(arg; _resolved_args) {
       if (!(arg.match(rgx.flag_action))) { /+ cli markup source path +/ // get first input markup source file names for processing
         string _config_arg = arg;
         /+ ↓ if first non-flag arg is a zip, extract for config discovery +/
@@ -910,7 +929,7 @@ string program_name = "spine";
   }
   ConfComposite _make_and_meta_struct = _siteConfig;
   destroy(_siteConfig);
-  foreach(arg; args[1..$]) {
+  foreach(arg; _resolved_args) {
     if (arg.match(rgx.flag_action)) { /+ cli instruction, flag do +/
       flag_action ~= " " ~ arg;   // flags not taken by getopt
     } else if (_opt_action.require_processing_files) { /+ cli, assumed to be path to source files +/
@@ -1453,4 +1472,8 @@ string program_name = "spine";
   foreach (ref _zpr; _zip_pod_extractions) {
     cleanupZipPod(_zpr);
   }
+  /+ ↓ clean up any downloaded temp files +/
+  foreach (ref _dlr; _url_downloads) {
+    cleanupDownload(_dlr);
+  }
 }