Connection reset by peer on https sites

[qvtqht]

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If the purpose of this issue is a bug report, site support request or you are not completely sure provide the full verbose output as follows:

Add the -v flag to your command line you run youtube-dl with (youtube-dl -v <your command line>), copy the whole output and insert it here. It should look similar to one below (replace it with your log inserted between triple ```):

$ youtube-dl "https://www.wimp.com/camels-eating-cacti-with-six-inch-needles/"
[Wimp] camels-eating-cacti-with-six-inch-needles: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 54] Connection reset by peer> (caused by URLError(ConnectionResetError(54, 'Connection reset by peer'),))
primer:~ digdug$ youtube-dl -v "https://www.wimp.com/camels-eating-cacti-with-six-inch-needles/"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://www.wimp.com/camels-eating-cacti-with-six-inch-needles/']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.06.11
[debug] Python version 3.5.5 (CPython) - Darwin-15.6.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 4.0, ffprobe 4.0
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[Wimp] camels-eating-cacti-with-six-inch-needles: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 54] Connection reset by peer> (caused by URLError(ConnectionResetError(54, 'Connection reset by peer'),))
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 579, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 2211, in urlopen
    return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 466, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 484, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 444, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 1101, in https_open
    req, **kwargs)
  File "/opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.5/lib/python3.5/urllib/request.py", line 1256, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

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If the purpose of this issue is a site support request please provide all kinds of example URLs support for which should be included (replace following example URLs by yours):

• Single video: https://www.wimp.com/camels-eating-cacti-with-six-inch-needles/

Note that youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement. In order for site support request to be accepted all provided example URLs should not violate any copyrights.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

This issue has started happening a few weeks ago for me, and no youtube-dl updates have fixed it so far. It happens with most https sites, not just wimp.com.

[dstftw]

Network issue on your side. Nothing to do with youtube-dl.

[qvtqht]

Any suggestion on how to debug/fix it? I've been having the same issue on different networks and sites.

[dstftw]

Try running through strace and analyze the output.