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Bad HTML escaping when using --proxy URL #10930

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madduci opened this issue Oct 15, 2016 · 1 comment
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Bad HTML escaping when using --proxy URL #10930

madduci opened this issue Oct 15, 2016 · 1 comment
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@madduci madduci commented Oct 15, 2016

What is the purpose of your issue?

  • Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
  • Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
  • Feature request (request for a new functionality)
  • Question
  • Other

The following sections concretize particular purposed issues, you can erase any section (the contents between triple ---) not applicable to your issue


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:

$ youtube-dl -v --proxy $PROXYURL --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail -x --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKyb3jXG1Xj_1oMeaaKK6uOeWp6_VXCq6
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2016.10.12
[debug] Python version 3.5.2 - Linux-4.4.24-1-MANJARO-x86_64-with-glibc2.3.4
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.1.4, ffprobe 3.1.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}

If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):


Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

I'm trying to run different proxies from Hide my Ass and on most of them I'm getting the error:

ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <html> (caused by BadStatusLine('<html>\r\n',));

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@dstftw dstftw commented Oct 18, 2016

This usually means the proxy misbehaves that is common for public proxies. If you can't normally browse with it you won't be able to use it with youtube-dl either.

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