Hi Scott,

which system are you on?

I am using a Mac, and the "open" command in the mac as
browse-url-generic-program

Carsten

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 03/31/2017 05:39 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have problems opening a link in org.
> >
> > The link looks like this:
> >
> > https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#search/q=author%3A%22Dominik%
> 2CC%22/metrics
> >
> > I have copied it like this from the address bar in a browser.
> >
> > If I click on it in Org-mode, the link is modified to
> >
> > https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/%23search/q=author:%22Dominik,C%22/metrics
> >
> > before being sent to the browser, and the browser cannot resolve it.
> > The problem seems to be that # has been turned into %23
>
> The link worked fine when I tried opening it from an Org file. I'm using
> Org 9.0.3 in Emacs 24.5.1 and my browser is Firefox.
>
> Scott Randby
>
> >
> > Where does this happen, and how can I fix this?
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Carsten
>