Proper support for changing User-Agents from IEs

[youtube-dl] / youtube_dl / utils.py

diff --git a/youtube_dl/utils.py b/youtube_dl/utils.py
index 0e37390a25d483fb9152b782431974391739f6fd..08be9e6373f6d4129327a6125b7d3b8c863273c0 100644 (file)
--- a/youtube_dl/utils.py
+++ b/youtube_dl/utils.py
@@ -524,6 +524,11 @@ class YoutubeDLHandler(compat_urllib_request.HTTPHandler):
             if 'Accept-encoding' in req.headers:
                 del req.headers['Accept-encoding']
             del req.headers['Youtubedl-no-compression']
+        if 'Youtubedl-user-agent' in req.headers:
+            if 'User-Agent' in req.headers:
+                del req.headers['User-Agent']
+            req.headers['User-Agent'] = req.headers['Youtubedl-user-agent']
+            del req.headers['Youtubedl-user-agent']
         return req
 
     def http_response(self, req, resp):