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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/__init__.py | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py index 614429073..bc6a6d180 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py +++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py @@ -430,6 +430,10 @@ def _real_main(argv=None): proxy_handler = compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler(proxies) https_handler = make_HTTPS_handler(opts) opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(https_handler, proxy_handler, cookie_processor, YoutubeDLHandler()) + # Delete the default user-agent header, which would otherwise apply in + # cases where our custom HTTP handler doesn't come into play + # (See https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1309 for details) + opener.addheaders =[] compat_urllib_request.install_opener(opener) socket.setdefaulttimeout(300) # 5 minutes should be enough (famous last words) |