Root cause of the recurring Mealie OIDC "unexpected character '/' in
variable name" failure, confirmed against the user's actual
configuration.yml byte content: this repo's own scripts write
authelia_url/domain unquoted, but YAML makes quoting optional, and a
hand-edited config can add single or double quotes around the value
(here: authelia_url: 'https://authelia.example.com.'). awk's
`print $2`/`print $3` is a naive whitespace-split token grab that doesn't
know about YAML quoting, so it captured the value WITH the literal quote
characters attached. The generated discovery URL then came out
`'https://authelia.example.com.'/.well-known/openid-configuration` —
Docker Compose's env parser closed the quoted value at that embedded
closing quote and choked on the trailing text as an invalid new token.
The earlier \r-stripping commit was a real but different fix (a
CRLF-tainted line fails to match these anchored awk patterns at all) —
it didn't cause and couldn't have fixed this. Both guards are needed and
now both apply, in both _authelia_provision_oidc_client() (domain and
portal URL) and the same latent bug in _authelia_add_oidc_client()'s
domain parse.
Verified end-to-end: reconstructed the user's exact reported byte
content (od -c dump) in a synthetic configuration.yml, ran the actual
_authelia_ensure_oidc_provider/_authelia_provision_oidc_client/
_mealie_offer_authelia_oidc functions against it (docker calls stubbed),
and confirmed the generated .env line is now a single clean line with no
embedded quotes or split.
Claude
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