Adding proxy to update procedure

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/update.py b/youtube_dl/update.py
index fc7ac8305..04bf0939e 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/update.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/update.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ from .compat import (
     compat_str,
     compat_urllib_request,
 )
-from .utils import make_HTTPS_handler
+
 from .version import __version__
 
 
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ def rsa_verify(message, signature, key):
     return True
 
 
-def update_self(to_screen, verbose):
+def update_self(to_screen, verbose, opener):
     """Update the program file with the latest version from the repository"""
 
     UPDATE_URL = "https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/update/"
@@ -59,9 +59,6 @@ def update_self(to_screen, verbose):
         to_screen('It looks like you installed youtube-dl with a package manager, pip, setup.py or a tarball. Please use that to update.')
         return
 
-    https_handler = make_HTTPS_handler({})
-    opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(https_handler)
-
     # Check if there is a new version
     try:
         newversion = opener.open(VERSION_URL).read().decode('utf-8').strip()