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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index 99cd05e65..9519594c9 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ from .utils import (
compat_str,
compat_urllib_error,
compat_urllib_request,
- compat_urllib_parse_urlparse,
+ escape_url,
ContentTooShortError,
date_from_str,
DateRange,
@@ -1243,20 +1243,14 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
def urlopen(self, req):
""" Start an HTTP download """
+ # According to RFC 3986, URLs can not contain non-ASCII characters, however this is not
+ # always respected by websites, some tend to give out URLs with non percent-encoded
+ # non-ASCII characters (see telemb.py, ard.py [#3412])
# urllib chokes on URLs with non-ASCII characters (see http://bugs.python.org/issue3991)
- # Working around by replacing request's original URL with escaped one
-
+ # To work around aforementioned issue we will replace request's original URL with
+ # percent-encoded one
url = req if isinstance(req, compat_str) else req.get_full_url()
-
- def escape(component):
- return compat_cookiejar.escape_path(component.encode('utf-8'))
-
- url_parsed = compat_urllib_parse_urlparse(url)
- url_escaped = url_parsed._replace(
- path=escape(url_parsed.path),
- query=escape(url_parsed.query),
- fragment=escape(url_parsed.fragment)
- ).geturl()
+ url_escaped = escape_url(url)
# Substitute URL if any change after escaping
if url != url_escaped: