From 0ea590076fd3b714b6a3345a28ac61d8be5e2afd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yen Chi Hsuan Date: Thu, 26 May 2016 17:22:40 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] [utils] Always decode Location header escape_url is broken for bytes-like objects --- youtube_dl/utils.py | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py index cfb2d1bf5..6ab1747b3 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/utils.py +++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py @@ -861,6 +861,8 @@ def http_response(self, req, resp): # As of RFC 2616 default charset is iso-8859-1 that is respected by python 3 if sys.version_info >= (3, 0): location = location.encode('iso-8859-1').decode('utf-8') + else: + location = location.decode('utf-8') location_escaped = escape_url(location) if location != location_escaped: del resp.headers['Location']