Block a particular server url or force to resend request to get content from another server

[Braj65]

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When sending request to download a video to an url, the downloader is getting invoked on one of the two servers. One of the servers is very slow in transferring content, due to which video download is very slow. While the other server is quite fast. Is it possible to block the slow server url so that youtube-dl always invokes the other server. Else anyway to keep re-sending the request for the target url, if the slow server responds the first time, till any other server except the slow server responds.

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[dstftw]

Automatically - not possible. Though you can filter out formats by some criteria inherent to the slow server with format selection.

[Braj65]

The format selection won't give any control on which server url to block. In the youtube-dl.py, if you can help me with which method is responsible to request for the server url and get the response then i can write an if condition to block unwanted urls and re-request. Keep changes local and compile and use it.