youtube-dl

commit: 434aca5b143fe358ae46688196391307834168fa
parent e31852aba934f5d53c50002ff832e290b72d8844
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date:   Sun, 28 Apr 2013 15:41:05 +0200

Automatically set HTTPS proxy if given (Fixes #805)

Diffstat:
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youtube_dl/__init__.py
6
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1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git 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)