youtube-dl

commit 419c64b107896628a159f558abdb298117249b9a
parent 99a5ae3f8ed30ee7b6fb723232895d7836afbc2d
Author: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date:   Mon, 13 May 2013 19:54:07 +0200

Throw a better error if the protocol is invalid

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youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
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1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
@@ -1304,6 +1304,8 @@ class GenericIE(InfoExtractor):
             opener.add_handler(handler())
 
         response = opener.open(HeadRequest(url))
+        if response is None:
+            raise ExtractorError(u'Invalid URL protocol')
         new_url = response.geturl()
 
         if url == new_url: