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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/utils.py2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index c9702fd93..dc73f3407 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ from .socks import (
def register_socks_protocols():
# "Register" SOCKS protocols
+ # In Python < 2.6.5, urlsplit() suffers from bug https://bugs.python.org/issue7904
+ # URLs with protocols not in urlparse.uses_netloc are not handled correctly
for scheme in ('socks', 'socks4', 'socks4a', 'socks5'):
if scheme not in compat_urlparse.uses_netloc:
compat_urlparse.uses_netloc.append(scheme)