youtube-dl

commit d5ae6bb50124f8320f2b492380480038c487a6d2
parent 51fb4995a5242c0edca09167cf8c4b050cf5a186
Author: Yen Chi Hsuan <yan12125@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue,  3 May 2016 15:37:30 +0800

[utils] Add rationale for register_socks_protocols

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youtube_dl/utils.py
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1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git 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)