--geo-bypass does not add X-Forwarded-For HTTP-header

[eladkarako]

I've used a packet inspector to figure out the network-traffic from YouTube-dl,
and it doesn't seems that --geo-bypass actually adds the X-Forwarded-For HTTP-header,
according to the documentations.

Bypass geographic restriction via faking X-Forwarded-For HTTP header (experimental)

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This command-line:

call D:\DOS\YOUTUB~1\YOUTUB~1.EXE --hls-prefer-native --postprocessor-args "-hide_banner -strict experimental -threads 16 -loglevel info -flags "+low_delay+global_header-unaligned-ilme-cgop-loop-output_corrupt" -flags2 "+fast+ignorecrop+showall+export_mvs" -fflags "+genpts+nofillin+discardcorrupt-fastseek-ignidx" -movflags "+faststart+disable_chpl" -mpv_flags "+strict_gop+naq" -avoid_negative_ts "make_zero" -segment_time_metadata "1" -force_duplicated_matrix "1" -tune "zerolatency" -map_chapters "-1" -map_metadata "-1"" --ffmpeg-location "D:/DOS/YOUTUB~1/" --recode-video "mp4" --merge-output-format "mp4" --format "best[ext=mp4][height <=? 720]/bestvideo[ext=mp4][height <=? 720]+bestaudio[ext=mp3]/bestvideo[ext=mp4][height <=? 720]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]" --verbose --print-traffic --abort-on-error --http-chunk-size "10M" --force-ipv4 --geo-bypass --no-check-certificate --prefer-insecure --no-call-home --batch-file "list1.txt"

generated those HTTP requests (HTTP-headers only):

GET https://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&v=_Utq5qPD8gY&has_verified=1&disable_polymer=true&hl=en&bpctr=9999999999 HTTP/1.1
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Host: www.youtube.com
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Cookie: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=2pOJ68Ak8r8; PREF=f1=50000000&hl=en; YSC=PMlisrTwpl4
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome)
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://support.google.com/accounts/answer/151657?hl=en for more info."
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Expires: Tue, 27 Apr 1971 19:44:06 EST
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block; report=https://www.google.com/appserve/security-bugs/log/youtube
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:11:54 GMT
Server: YouTube Frontend Proxy
Set-Cookie: s_gl=1d69aac621b2f9c0a25dade722d6e24bcwIAAABVUw==; path=/; domain=.youtube.com
Alt-Svc: hq=":443"; ma=2592000; quic=51303431; quic=51303339; quic=51303338; quic=51303337; quic=51303335,quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="41,39,38,37,35"
Connection: close
Content-Length: 208491



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GET http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?ps=default&disable_polymer=true&el=embedded&sts=17570&eurl=&gl=US&hl=en&video_id=_Utq5qPD8gY HTTP/1.1
Host: www.youtube.com
Connection: close
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Cookie: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=2pOJ68Ak8r8; PREF=f1=50000000&hl=en; YSC=PMlisrTwpl4; s_gl=1d69aac621b2f9c0a25dade722d6e24bcwIAAABVUw==
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome)
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://support.google.com/accounts/answer/151657?hl=en for more info."
X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block; report=https://www.google.com/appserve/security-bugs/log/youtube
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cache-Control: no-cache
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Expires: Tue, 27 Apr 1971 19:44:06 EST
Content-Length: 66016
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:12:02 GMT
Server: YouTube Frontend Proxy
Set-Cookie: s_gl=1d69aac621b2f9c0a25dade722d6e24bcwIAAABVUw==; path=/; domain=.youtube.com
Connection: close



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GET https://r2---sn-nhpax-ua8s.googlevideo.com/videoplayback?ratebypass=yes&lmt=1518190989246166&ms=au%2Crdu&initcwndbps=947500&source=youtube&ipbits=0&fvip=5&dur=1504.931&ei=igB-WoyOEdGH8gOXmZq4CA&itag=22&expire=1518228714&c=WEB&ip=77.126.65.20&requiressl=yes&beids=%5B9466593%5D&mime=video%2Fmp4&key=yt6&mt=1518207011&mv=m&sparams=dur%2Cei%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&id=o-APnK-ATX3N1Rxr8WpU4aoKi2-PyxjX5El1sPor5WJpzQ&pl=21&mm=31%2C29&mn=sn-nhpax-ua8s%2Csn-4g5e6nls&signature=8D8C41B8EE6D05F356D8A0730C647E94D11201ED.5374EDDD58B66FE7141EC8DB1B49C46388A0D353 HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: identity
Connection: close
Host: r2---sn-nhpax-ua8s.googlevideo.com
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0) Gecko/20150101 Firefox/47.0 (Chrome)
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Last-Modified: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 15:43:09 GMT
Content-Type: video/mp4
Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:12:11 GMT
Expires: Fri, 09 Feb 2018 20:12:11 GMT
Cache-Control: private, max-age=21283
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 219747077
Connection: close
Alt-Svc: hq=":443"; ma=2592000; quic=51303431; quic=51303339; quic=51303338; quic=51303337; quic=51303335,quic=":443"; ma=2592000; v="41,39,38,37,35"
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Server: gvs 1.0



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Ps. this was done using the native downloader (as can be seen from the command-line above), but when switched to using the external-downloader `aria2c`, which supports `--header="KEY: VALUE"` too - it didn't seems to generate any `X-Forwarded-For` headers either.

[dstftw]

You did not provide --geo-bypass-country.
Also you don't even need to use --geo-bypass on your own. It's done automatically when appropriate.