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diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index e265c7574..b7a423166 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -587,6 +587,11 @@ class ContentTooShortError(Exception):
def _create_http_connection(ydl_handler, http_class, is_https, *args, **kwargs):
+ # Working around python 2 bug (see http://bugs.python.org/issue17849) by limiting
+ # expected HTTP responses to meet HTTP/1.0 or later (see also
+ # https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/6727)
+ if sys.version_info < (3, 0):
+ kwargs['strict'] = True
hc = http_class(*args, **kwargs)
source_address = ydl_handler._params.get('source_address')
if source_address is not None: