aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/youtube_dl/__init__.py
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'youtube_dl/__init__.py')
-rw-r--r--youtube_dl/__init__.py6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index ce754ffd3..2639df818 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -376,7 +376,11 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
# General configuration
cookie_processor = compat_urllib_request.HTTPCookieProcessor(jar)
- proxy_handler = compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler()
+ proxies = compat_urllib_request.getproxies()
+ # Set HTTPS proxy to HTTP one if given (https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/805)
+ if 'http' in proxies and 'https' not in proxies:
+ proxies['https'] = proxies['http']
+ proxy_handler = compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler(proxies)
opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(proxy_handler, cookie_processor, YoutubeDLHandler())
compat_urllib_request.install_opener(opener)
socket.setdefaulttimeout(300) # 5 minutes should be enough (famous last words)