OPeNDAP not working on matlab 2014a

Hello, I am trying to do the following in Matlab 2014a:

url_grid = ['http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/thredds/dodsC/Datasets/NARR/monolevel/cape.1979.nc'];
ncdisp(url_grid)

When I run this, I get the following error:

Error using netcdflib
The NetCDF library encountered an error during execution of
'open' function - 'I/O failure (NC_EIO)'. If the data source was
an  OPeNDAP URL, see the OPeNDAP Troubleshooting section in the
Users Guide.

Error in netcdf.open (line 59)
        [varargout{:}] = netcdflib ( 'open', filename,
        varargin{1} );

Error in internal.matlab.imagesci.nc/openToRead (line 1265)
            this.ncRootid = netcdf.open(this.Filename,'NOWRITE');

Error in internal.matlab.imagesci.nc (line 121)
                    this.openToRead();

Error in ncdisp (line 50)
ncObj   = internal.matlab.imagesci.nc(ncFile);

However, when a colleague with Matlab 2016a runs the same lines, there is no issue. Looking around, it seems this capability was added in 2012, so shouldn't be a problem in my 2014 version. Suggestions? Thank you.

[Kevin]

Did you find a solution yet? The PSD site recommended the Matlab bug fix #1072120 but that hasn't helped. It appears confined to 'www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/*' but I tried reading the same files in python and it worked fine.