Bubble up all the stack of exceptions and retry download tests on timeout errors

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
index 3b2adf84b..a13a5f9d7 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/FileDownloader.py
@@ -227,11 +227,21 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
             self.to_stderr(message)
         if self.params.get('verbose'):
             if tb is None:
-                tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())
-                tb = u''.join(tb_data)
+                if sys.exc_info()[0]:  # if .trouble has been called from an except block
+                    tb = u''
+                    if hasattr(sys.exc_info()[1], 'exc_info') and sys.exc_info()[1].exc_info[0]:
+                        tb += u''.join(traceback.format_exception(*sys.exc_info()[1].exc_info))
+                    tb += compat_str(traceback.format_exc())
+                else:
+                    tb_data = traceback.format_list(traceback.extract_stack())
+                    tb = u''.join(tb_data)
             self.to_stderr(tb)
         if not self.params.get('ignoreerrors', False):
-            raise DownloadError(message)
+            if sys.exc_info()[0] and hasattr(sys.exc_info()[1], 'exc_info') and sys.exc_info()[1].exc_info[0]:
+                exc_info = sys.exc_info()[1].exc_info
+            else:
+                exc_info = sys.exc_info()
+            raise DownloadError(message, exc_info)
         self._download_retcode = 1
 
     def report_warning(self, message):
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 95bd94843..88d4ece13 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ class ExtractorError(Exception):
         """ tb, if given, is the original traceback (so that it can be printed out). """
         super(ExtractorError, self).__init__(msg)
         self.traceback = tb
+        self.exc_info = sys.exc_info()  # preserve original exception
 
     def format_traceback(self):
         if self.traceback is None:
@@ -449,7 +450,10 @@ class DownloadError(Exception):
     configured to continue on errors. They will contain the appropriate
     error message.
     """
-    pass
+    def __init__(self, msg, exc_info=None):
+        """ exc_info, if given, is the original exception that caused the trouble (as returned by sys.exc_info()). """
+        super(DownloadError, self).__init__(msg)
+        self.exc_info = exc_info
 
 
 class SameFileError(Exception):