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