diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | youtube_dl/utils.py | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py index e265c7574..b7a423166 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/utils.py +++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py @@ -587,6 +587,11 @@ class ContentTooShortError(Exception): def _create_http_connection(ydl_handler, http_class, is_https, *args, **kwargs): + # Working around python 2 bug (see http://bugs.python.org/issue17849) by limiting + # expected HTTP responses to meet HTTP/1.0 or later (see also + # https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/6727) + if sys.version_info < (3, 0): + kwargs['strict'] = True hc = http_class(*args, **kwargs) source_address = ydl_handler._params.get('source_address') if source_address is not None: |