Rename compat_urllib_request_Request to sanitized_Request and move to utils
[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / YoutubeDL.py
index fba99af8dce2143e7cc8feba3a61460f2b029839..eedab37a7e1baad92b79547cbd4e5dbccc5b560b 100755 (executable)
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ if os.name == 'nt':
     import ctypes
 
 from .compat import (
+    compat_basestring,
     compat_cookiejar,
     compat_expanduser,
     compat_get_terminal_size,
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ from .utils import (
     SameFileError,
     sanitize_filename,
     sanitize_path,
+    sanitized_Request,
     std_headers,
     subtitles_filename,
     UnavailableVideoError,
@@ -1871,6 +1873,8 @@ class YoutubeDL(object):
 
     def urlopen(self, req):
         """ Start an HTTP download """
+        if isinstance(req, compat_basestring):
+            req = sanitized_Request(req)
         return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
 
     def print_debug_header(self):