From 3d5f7a3947a8d304bc7ad46217f171996e95c475 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Knoedtel Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 22:26:20 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [utils] Prevent override of custom headers. The dict of headers of request objects in urllib has its keys always capitalized. This causes the lookup to fail and overwrite the header. If for example a Extractor tries to add a "User-Agent" header the internal representation in the request object is "User-agent". The header is therefore clobbered by the "User-Agent" in std_headers, because the strings are not equal. --- youtube_dl/utils.py | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py index 98732e8e99..daf94abd1d 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/utils.py +++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py @@ -611,7 +611,9 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler): def http_request(self, req): for h, v in std_headers.items(): - if h not in req.headers: + # Capitalize is needed because of Python bug 2275: http://bugs.python.org/issue2275 + # The dict keys are capitalized because of this bug by urllib + if h.capitalize() not in req.headers: req.add_header(h, v) if 'Youtubedl-no-compression' in req.headers: if 'Accept-encoding' in req.headers: