From 54b960f340ed5398136ef0206d17cafba2575678 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?utf8?q?Sergey=20M=E2=80=A4?= <dstftw@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:45:24 +0700
Subject: [PATCH] [generic] Do not follow redirects to the same URL

---
 youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py | 13 ++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
index cb6308d29..da9d04efc 100644
--- a/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py
@@ -2635,11 +2635,14 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
                     found = re.search(REDIRECT_REGEX, refresh_header)
             if found:
                 new_url = compat_urlparse.urljoin(url, unescapeHTML(found.group(1)))
-                self.report_following_redirect(new_url)
-                return {
-                    '_type': 'url',
-                    'url': new_url,
-                }
+                if new_url != url:
+                    self.report_following_redirect(new_url)
+                    return {
+                        '_type': 'url',
+                        'url': new_url,
+                    }
+                else:
+                    found = None
 
         if not found:
             # twitter:player is a https URL to iframe player that may or may not
-- 
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