[YoutubeDL] Force redirect URL to unicode on python 2

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index b09cb0a79..19370f62b 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ from .utils import (
     YoutubeDLCookieJar,
     YoutubeDLCookieProcessor,
     YoutubeDLHandler,
+    YoutubeDLRedirectHandler,
 )
 from .cache import Cache
 from .extractor import get_info_extractor, gen_extractor_classes, _LAZY_LOADER
@@ -2343,6 +2344,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
         debuglevel = 1 if self.params.get('debug_printtraffic') else 0
         https_handler = make_HTTPS_handler(self.params, debuglevel=debuglevel)
         ydlh = YoutubeDLHandler(self.params, debuglevel=debuglevel)
+        redirect_handler = YoutubeDLRedirectHandler()
         data_handler = compat_urllib_request_DataHandler()
 
         # When passing our own FileHandler instance, build_opener won't add the
@@ -2356,7 +2358,7 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
         file_handler.file_open = file_open
 
         opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(
-            proxy_handler, https_handler, cookie_processor, ydlh, data_handler, file_handler)
+            proxy_handler, https_handler, cookie_processor, ydlh, redirect_handler, data_handler, file_handler)
 
         # Delete the default user-agent header, which would otherwise apply in
         # cases where our custom HTTP handler doesn't come into play