[ho-tex] A patch for the doi package (was: (fwd) Feedback for /author/oberdiek?lang=en)

[David Carlisle]

Actually looking at the DOI website the preferred form these days is
https://doi.org (so https not http, and no dx.)  Maarten and Heiko, if
you want I could add a repo in github under https://github.com/ho-tex
and fix it. Probably use something like


\def\doiurl{https://doi.org}

and use \doiurl in the body of the code, then if a user wants the
existing form they just need

\renewcommand\doiurl{http://dx.doi.org}

after loading the package.

David
On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 at 07:26, Petra Ruebe-Pugliese <petra at ctan.org> wrote:
>
> Hello Maarten,
>
> the following message reached us due to missing contact data in
> the package itself and on our webpage:
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Olivier Cailloux <olivier.cailloux at gmail.com> -----
>
> From: Olivier Cailloux <olivier.cailloux at gmail.com>
> To: webmaster at ctan.org
> Subject: Feedback for /author/oberdiek?lang=en
> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2018 23:00:54 +0200
> Message-ID: <abf47e42-4725-ae58-c97d-bb1fd50765f6 at gmail.com>
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1
>
> Hi,
>
> Just wanted to point out about the package doi that the doi package uses
> old-style dx.doi url, see 3.8 DOI system Proxy Server technical details,
> “Users may resolve DOI names that are structured to use the DOI system Proxy
> Server (http://doi.org (preferred) or http://dx.doi.org).”,
> https://www.doi.org/doi_handbook/3_Resolution.html.
>
> The following patch solves the problem:
>
> \makeatletter
> \patchcmd{\@doi}{dx.doi.org}{doi.org}{}{}
> \makeatother
>
> Please consider referring to the preferred url.
>
> Thanks for the packages!
>
> --
> Olivier
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
>
>
>        Kind regards,
>     Petra Rübe-Pugliese
>      for the CTAN team
>
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