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

[David Carlisle]

I put a possible updated version here

https://github.com/ho-tex/doi

but I won't upload to CTAN  unless Heiko or Maarten say that's OK...

David

David

On Sun, 9 Sep 2018 at 09:43, David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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