From d5ae6bb50124f8320f2b492380480038c487a6d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yen Chi Hsuan Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 15:37:30 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] [utils] Add rationale for register_socks_protocols --- youtube_dl/utils.py | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py index c9702fd93..dc73f3407 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/utils.py +++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py @@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ from .socks import ( def register_socks_protocols(): # "Register" SOCKS protocols + # In Python < 2.6.5, urlsplit() suffers from bug https://bugs.python.org/issue7904 + # URLs with protocols not in urlparse.uses_netloc are not handled correctly for scheme in ('socks', 'socks4', 'socks4a', 'socks5'): if scheme not in compat_urlparse.uses_netloc: compat_urlparse.uses_netloc.append(scheme) -- 2.22.2