Download through proxy does not work with new site FranceTV

[ymartin59]

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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 ```):

$ ~/bin/youtube-dl -v --proxy $http_proxy --write-description --write-info-json https://www.france.tv/france-5/sid-le-petit-scientifique/137375-sauvons-la-souche.html
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: [u'-v', u'--proxy', u'http://178.32.218.91:80', u'--write-description', u'--write-info-json', u'--ignore-errors', u'https://www.france.tv/france-5/sid-le-petit-scientifique/137375-sauvons-la-souche.html']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2017.05.09
[debug] Python version 2.7.12 - Linux-3.2.40-i686-with-glibc2.0
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.2.2, ffprobe 3.2.2, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {u'http': u'http://178.32.218.91:80', u'https': u'http://178.32.218.91:80'}
[FranceTV] 137375-sauvons-la-souche: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error Tunnel connection failed: 500 Internal Server Error> (caused by URLError(error('Tunnel connection failed: 500 Internal Server Error',),))
  File "/var/services/homes/admin/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 502, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/var/services/homes/admin/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 "/var/services/homes/admin/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1090, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1198, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

Description

Download of a video through an HTTP proxy no longer work with FranceTV site whereas it was used to work with pluzz and same proxy. Of course I checked that the HTTP proxy I used works properly for other usage. I am not sure if trouble may be worked-around in youtube-dl itself if proxy usage is detected and rejected server-side.

Again many thanks for the great job you do with this tool.

[dstftw]

Your proxy is either dead or blocked.