From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:31:24 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Delete default user agent (Fixes #1309)
X-Git-Url: http://git.oshgnacknak.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=88a79ce6a6edb6d3f8b6e3319f6ca1d3d2954c16;p=youtube-dl

Delete default user agent (Fixes #1309)
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/__init__.py b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
index 614429073..bc6a6d180 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/__init__.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/__init__.py
@@ -430,6 +430,10 @@ def _real_main(argv=None):
     proxy_handler = compat_urllib_request.ProxyHandler(proxies)
     https_handler = make_HTTPS_handler(opts)
     opener = compat_urllib_request.build_opener(https_handler, proxy_handler, cookie_processor, YoutubeDLHandler())
+    # Delete the default user-agent header, which would otherwise apply in
+    # cases where our custom HTTP handler doesn't come into play
+    # (See https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/1309 for details)
+    opener.addheaders =[]
     compat_urllib_request.install_opener(opener)
     socket.setdefaulttimeout(300) # 5 minutes should be enough (famous last words)