<p>The directions functionality on the main map is broken.</p>

<p>Inputting a starting (Esbjerg, Denmark) and destination (Copenhagen, Denmark) point will load  <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=osrm_car&route=55.466%2C8.452%3B55.687%2C12.570">http://www.openstreetmap.org/directions?engine=osrm_car&route=55.466%2C8.452%3B55.687%2C12.570</a> which result in a routing error: "Couldn't find a route between those two places." message, and in the browser console I see a  error;</p>

<p>Firefox 47.0 (Ubuntu 15.10):</p>

<blockquote>
<p>17:34:47.325 Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at <a href="http://router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/8.452,55.466;12.57,55.687?overview=false&geometries=polyline&steps=true">http://router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/8.452,55.466;12.57,55.687?overview=false&geometries=polyline&steps=true</a>. (Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing).1 (unknown)</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Chromium 51.0.2704.79 (Ubuntu 15.10):</p>

<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/8.452,55.466;12.57,55.687?overview=false&geometries=polyline&steps=true">http://router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/8.452,55.466;12.57,55.687?overview=false&geometries=polyline&steps=true</a> Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 504 (GATEWAY_TIMEOUT)<br>
XMLHttpRequest cannot load <a href="http://router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/8.452,55.466;12.57,55.687?overview=false&geometries=polyline&steps=true">http://router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/8.452,55.466;12.57,55.687?overview=false&geometries=polyline&steps=true</a>. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin '<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org">http://www.openstreetmap.org</a>' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 504.</p>
</blockquote>

<p>Internet Explorer 11.0.9600.18376 (Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard)</p>

<blockquote>
<p>SEC7120: Origin <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org">http://www.openstreetmap.org</a> not found in Access-Control-Allow-Origin header.<br>
File: directions<br>
SCRIPT7002: XMLHttpRequest: Network Error 0x80070005, Access is denied.<br>
File: directions</p>
</blockquote>

<p>A manual request however shows, as Chromium is aware, that the router.project-osrm.org API returns status code 504:</p>

<blockquote>
<p>$ wget -S -O- "<a href="http://router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/8.452,55.466;12.57,55.687?overview=false&geometries=polyline&steps=true">http://router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/8.452,55.466;12.57,55.687?overview=false&geometries=polyline&steps=true</a>"<br>
--2016-08-08 17:52:51--  <a href="http://router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/8.452,55.466;12.57,55.687?overview=false&geometries=polyline&steps=true">http://router.project-osrm.org/route/v1/driving/8.452,55.466;12.57,55.687?overview=false&geometries=polyline&steps=true</a><br>
Resolving router.project-osrm.org (router.project-osrm.org)... 52.21.213.38<br>
Connecting to router.project-osrm.org (router.project-osrm.org)|52.21.213.38|:80... connected.<br>
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... <br>
  HTTP/1.1 504 GATEWAY_TIMEOUT<br>
  Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2016 15:53:06 GMT<br>
  Server: nginx/1.4.6 (Ubuntu)<br>
  Content-Length: 0<br>
  Connection: keep-alive<br>
Retrying.<br>
....</p>
</blockquote>

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