[YoutubeDL:utils] Move percent encode non-ASCII URLs workaround to http_request and simplify (Closes #6457)

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index 1446b3254..079d42ce8 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -1860,27 +1860,6 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
 
     def urlopen(self, req):
         """ Start an HTTP download """
-
-        # According to RFC 3986, URLs can not contain non-ASCII characters, however this is not
-        # always respected by websites, some tend to give out URLs with non percent-encoded
-        # non-ASCII characters (see telemb.py, ard.py [#3412])
-        # urllib chokes on URLs with non-ASCII characters (see http://bugs.python.org/issue3991)
-        # To work around aforementioned issue we will replace request's original URL with
-        # percent-encoded one
-        req_is_string = isinstance(req, compat_basestring)
-        url = req if req_is_string else req.get_full_url()
-        url_escaped = escape_url(url)
-
-        # Substitute URL if any change after escaping
-        if url != url_escaped:
-            if req_is_string:
-                req = url_escaped
-            else:
-                req_type = HEADRequest if req.get_method() == 'HEAD' else compat_urllib_request.Request
-                req = req_type(
-                    url_escaped, data=req.data, headers=req.headers,
-                    origin_req_host=req.origin_req_host, unverifiable=req.unverifiable)
-
         return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
 
     def print_debug_header(self):