From 9a4aec8b7ea2c0863bc03ba8f3d3e69a61e77c80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yen Chi Hsuan Date: Sun, 29 May 2016 19:25:25 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] [utils] Use bytes-like objects as header values on Python 2 --- youtube_dl/utils.py | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py index 6ab1747b3c..26f21602c0 100644 --- a/youtube_dl/utils.py +++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py @@ -866,6 +866,8 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler): location_escaped = escape_url(location) if location != location_escaped: del resp.headers['Location'] + if sys.version_info < (3, 0): + location_escaped = location_escaped.encode('utf-8') resp.headers['Location'] = location_escaped return resp