From 82d8a8b6e2eadb2c1ac8684ce9876f40925f4e2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 03:08:34 +0600
Subject: [PATCH] [YoutubeDL] Wrap plain-text URL requests in
 compat_urllib_request_Request

---
 youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
index fba99af8d..b20837ce2 100755
--- a/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
     import ctypes
 
 from .compat import (
+    compat_basestring,
     compat_cookiejar,
     compat_expanduser,
     compat_get_terminal_size,
@@ -38,6 +39,7 @@
     compat_urllib_error,
     compat_urllib_request,
     compat_urllib_request_DataHandler,
+    compat_urllib_request_Request,
 )
 from .utils import (
     ContentTooShortError,
@@ -1871,6 +1873,8 @@ def list_subtitles(self, video_id, subtitles, name='subtitles'):
 
     def urlopen(self, req):
         """ Start an HTTP download """
+        if isinstance(req, compat_basestring):
+            req = compat_urllib_request_Request(req)
         return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
 
     def print_debug_header(self):