1 files changed, 7 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index e82e3998a..472d4df41 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -326,6 +326,13 @@ def sanitize_path(s):
     return os.path.join(*sanitized_path)
 
 
+def sanitize_url_path_consecutive_slashes(url):
+    """Collapses consecutive slashes in URLs' path"""
+    parsed_url = list(compat_urlparse.urlparse(url))
+    parsed_url[2] = re.sub(r'/{2,}', '/', parsed_url[2])
+    return compat_urlparse.urlunparse(parsed_url)
+
+
 def orderedSet(iterable):
     """ Remove all duplicates from the input iterable """
     res = []
@@ -1804,18 +1811,3 @@ class PerRequestProxyHandler(compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler):
             return None  # No Proxy
         return compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler.proxy_open(
             self, req, proxy, type)
-
-
-def url_sanitize_consecutive_slashes(url):
-    """Sanitize URLs with consecutive slashes
-
-    For example, transform both
-        http://hostname/foo//bar/filename.html
-    and
-        http://hostname//foo/bar/filename.html
-    into
-        http://hostname/foo/bar/filename.html
-    """
-    parsed_url = list(compat_urlparse.urlparse(url))
-    parsed_url[2] = re.sub(r'/{2,}', '/', parsed_url[2])
-    return compat_urlparse.urlunparse(parsed_url)