Viki Error 104 "Unable to download JSON metadata: [Errno 104] "

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provide the full verbose output as follows: (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl --write-sub --sub-lang 'fr,en' --verbose --sub-format 'srt' --proxy 184.21.15.19:45554 https://www.viki.com/videos/1088385v-cupid-factory-episode-1
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'--write-sub', u'--sub-lang', u'fr,en', u'--verbose', u'--sub-format', u'srt', u'--proxy', u'184.21.15.19:45554', u'https://www.viki.com/videos/1088385v-cupid-factory-episode-1']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.01
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-4.4.0-77-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
[debug] exe versions: avconv 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, avprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffmpeg 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1, ffprobe 2.8.11-0ubuntu0.16.04.1
[debug] Proxy map: {u'http': u'184.21.15.19:45554', u'https': u'184.21.15.19:45554'}
[viki] 1088385v: Downloading video JSON
ERROR: Unable to download JSON metadata: '' (caused by BadStatusLine("''",)); please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 498, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2106, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 429, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 447, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 407, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 925, in http_open
    req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1201, in do_open
    r = h.getresponse(buffering=True)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1136, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 453, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 417, in _read_status
    raise BadStatusLine(line)
...
<end of log>

[dstftw]

184.21.15.19:45554 is socks proxy, needless to say it appears to be dead.