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Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py')
| -rwxr-xr-x | youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py index 553bf559b..9519594c9 100755 --- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py +++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ from .utils import ( compat_str, compat_urllib_error, compat_urllib_request, + escape_url, ContentTooShortError, date_from_str, DateRange, @@ -1241,6 +1242,25 @@ 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) + # 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() + url_escaped = escape_url(url) + + # Substitute URL if any change after escaping + if url != url_escaped: + if isinstance(req, compat_str): + req = url_escaped + else: + req = compat_urllib_request.Request( + url_escaped, data=req.data, headers=req.headers, + origin_req_host=req.origin_req_host, unverifiable=req.unverifiable) + return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout) def print_debug_header(self): |