From: Philipp Hagemeister <phihag@phihag.de>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 17:54:07 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Throw a better error if the protocol is invalid
X-Git-Url: http://git.bitcoin.ninja/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=419c64b107896628a159f558abdb298117249b9a;p=youtube-dl

Throw a better error if the protocol is invalid
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diff --git a/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py b/youtube_dl/InfoExtractors.py
index ce959a6df..6d6203a1c 100755
--- 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: