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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) | 
