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| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/__init__.py | 6 | 
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py index ce754ffd3..2639df818 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py +++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py @@ -376,7 +376,11 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):      # General configuration      cookie_processor = compat_urllib_request.HTTPCookieProcessor(jar) -    proxy_handler = compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler() +    proxies = compat_urllib_request.getproxies() +    # Set HTTPS proxy to HTTP one if given (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/805) +    if 'http' in proxies and 'https' not in proxies: +        proxies['https'] = proxies['http'] +    proxy_handler = compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler(proxies)      opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(proxy_handler, cookie_processor, YoutubeDLHandler())      compat_urllib_request.install_opener(opener)      socket.setdefaulttimeout(300) # 5 minutes should be enough (famous last words)  | 
