C-SPAN no longer working

[groucho86]

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Make sure you are using the latest version: run youtube-dl --version and ensure your version is 2016.08.10. If it's not read this FAQ entry and update. Issues with outdated version will be rejected.

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with, copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl -v https://www.c-span.org/video/?404337-1/future-space-exploration
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'https://www.c-span.org/video/?404337-1/future-space-exploration']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.08.10
[debug] Python version 2.7.6 - Darwin-13.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.0.1, ffprobe 3.0.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[CSpan] 404337: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 1] _ssl.c:507: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, '_ssl.c:507: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure'),))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 394, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1994, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 404, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1003, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1184, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)
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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I managed to download from C-SPAN last week. Either this particular video has a different protection or C-SPAN updated their protection method.

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