Re: Emacs can't reach dx.doi.org?

[Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com>]

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> I'm having a surprising issue, whereby Emacs -Q sometimes doesn't seem to be able to reach dx.doi.org; other websites work fine, but for that particular one the network process stays in "connect" state for a while, then goes to "failed" state. I'm pretty sure it worked a few days ago, and it has worked intermittently today. I'm on the latest pretest.
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> Before opening a bug report, I'd like to make sure that I'm not doing anything silly: I'm trying to open http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(08)62292-7 ; with eww, I get "Loading http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(08)62292-7...". With 
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>   (url-retrieve
>    "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(08)62292-7"
>    (lambda (&rest args) (message "args: %S" args)))
>

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> Clément.

Hi Clément,

I get http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(08)62292-7 with no problems,
using eww directly on GNU Emacs 25.1.50.5. If I \C-j after

(url-retrieve
"http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0262-4079(08)62292-7"
(lambda (&rest args) (message "args: %S" args)))

in the scratch buffer, I get the message

Contacting host: dx.doi.org:80
args: ((:redirect
"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407908622927"
:redirect
"http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0262407908622927?via%3Dihub"
:redirect
"http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/articleSelectSinglePerm?Redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS0262407908622927%3Fvia%253Dihub&key=f431f9792c30720d33c588d7004396ef0c8972a9"
:redirect
"http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0262407908622927"))

but no web-site in an eww buffer.

Hope this is of some help.

Colin.