From: Philipp Hagemeister Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 02:31:57 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [generic] Ignore stupid HTTP servers (#1284) X-Git-Url: http://git.oshgnacknak.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3093468977e5c04d7f39016bbe983c483e47707f;p=youtube-dl [generic] Ignore stupid HTTP servers (#1284) --- diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py index b633e896c..1c468f8f6 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py +++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py @@ -107,8 +107,13 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor): return new_url def _real_extract(self, url): - new_url = self._test_redirect(url) - if new_url: return [self.url_result(new_url)] + try: + new_url = self._test_redirect(url) + if new_url: + return [self.url_result(new_url)] + except compat_urllib_error.HTTPError: + # This may be a stupid server that doesn't like HEAD, our UA, or so + pass video_id = url.split('/')[-1] try: