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-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index 77e217460..d34fc4b15 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -2226,7 +2226,7 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
default_search = 'fixup_error'
if default_search in ('auto', 'auto_warning', 'fixup_error'):
- if '/' in url:
+ if re.match(r'^[^\s/]+\.[^\s/]+/', url):
self._downloader.report_warning('The url doesn\'t specify the protocol, trying with http')
return self.url_result('http://' + url)
elif default_search != 'fixup_error':