From: Ricardo Garcia <sarbalap+freshmeat@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:10:32 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Avoid using Unicode strings when forming URL requests (fixes issue #50)
X-Git-Url: http://git.oshgnacknak.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f5a5bec35145bad8ecba149b65254bb0cfa70b78;p=youtube-dl

Avoid using Unicode strings when forming URL requests (fixes issue #50)
---

diff --git a/youtube-dl b/youtube-dl
index 5efc55e6d..047cc37f8 100755
--- a/youtube-dl
+++ b/youtube-dl
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 		# Do nothing else if in simulate mode
 		if self.params.get('simulate', False):
 			try:
-				info_dict['url'] = self.verify_url(info_dict['url'])
+				info_dict['url'] = self.verify_url(info_dict['url'].encode('utf-8')).decode('utf-8')
 			except (OSError, IOError, urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err:
 				raise UnavailableFormatError
 
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ class FileDownloader(object):
 			return
 
 		try:
-			success = self._do_download(filename, info_dict['url'])
+			success = self._do_download(filename, info_dict['url'].encode('utf-8'))
 		except (OSError, IOError), err:
 			raise UnavailableFormatError
 		except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err: