Downloading fails with error 'no host given'

[bertjanbakker]

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~ $ youtube-dl "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xDOdq-HENU" --verbose --dump-pages --no-check-certificate
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xDOdq-HENU', '--verbose', '--dump-pages', '--no-check-certificate']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.04.25
[debug] Python version 3.6.5 (CPython) - Linux-4.15.0-2-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-buster-sid
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0, ffprobe 4.0, phantomjs 2.1.1, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {'https': 'http://', 'http': 'http://', 'ftp': 'http://'}
[youtube] 3xDOdq-HENU: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error no host given> (caused by URLError('no host given',))
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 519, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2203, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 526, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 544, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 504, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1101, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/urllib/request.py", line 1283, in do_open
    raise URLError('no host given')

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

Downloading fails with error 'no host given'.

[dstftw]

Invalid proxy configuration in env variables.

[bertjanbakker]

Thanks 2018-04-26 0:01 GMT+02:00 Sergey M. <notifications@github.com>:

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