cbs does not work with geo-verification-proxy - system hangs

[justa9]

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[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Custom config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', '-f', 'best', 'cbs:E8aYmGjxuQ5HFdZTwL_6CIckRtxvkAS3', '--geo-verification-proxy', 'XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:XX', '--ignore-config']
[debug] Encodings: locale cp1253, fs mbcs, out cp1253, pref cp1253
[debug] youtube-dl version 2018.09.08
[debug] Python version 3.4.4 (CPython) - Windows-XP-5.1.2600-SP3
[debug] exe versions: ffmpeg 3.3, ffprobe N-82759-g1f5630a-Sherpya, phantomjs 1.9.8, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[CBS] E8aYmGjxuQ5HFdZTwL_6CIckRtxvkAS3: Downloading XML
[CBS] E8aYmGjxuQ5HFdZTwL_6CIckRtxvkAS3: Downloading StreamPack SMIL data
[CBS] E8aYmGjxuQ5HFdZTwL_6CIckRtxvkAS3: Downloading RTMP SMIL data
ERROR: E8aYmGjxuQ5HFdZTwL_6CIckRtxvkAS3: Failed to parse XML  (caused by ParseError('not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 4',)); please report this issue on https://yt-d
l.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpork090uw\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 816, in _parse_xml
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpork090uw\build\youtube_dl\compat.py", line 2513, in compat_etree_fromstring
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1335, in XML
  File "<string>", line None
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 4
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpork090uw\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 816, in _parse_xml
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpork090uw\build\youtube_dl\compat.py", line 2513, in compat_etree_fromstring
  File "C:\Python\Python34\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1335, in XML
  File "<string>", line None
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 4

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpork090uw\build\youtube_dl\YoutubeDL.py", line 792, in extract_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpork090uw\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 502, in extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpork090uw\build\youtube_dl\extractor\cbs.py", line 108, in _real_extract
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpork090uw\build\youtube_dl\extractor\cbs.py", line 89, in _extract_video_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpork090uw\build\youtube_dl\extractor\cbs.py", line 82, in _extract_video_info
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpork090uw\build\youtube_dl\extractor\theplatform.py", line 40, in _extract_theplatform_smil
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpork090uw\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 809, in _download_xml
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpork090uw\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 793, in _download_xml_handle
  File "C:\Users\dst\AppData\Roaming\Build archive\youtube-dl\rg3\tmpork090uw\build\youtube_dl\extractor\common.py", line 820, in _parse_xml
youtube_dl.utils.ExtractorError: E8aYmGjxuQ5HFdZTwL_6CIckRtxvkAS3: Failed to parse XML  (caused by ParseError('not well-formed (invalid token): line 1, column 4',)); please report
this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; type  youtube-dl -U  to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its
 complete output.

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Description of your issue, suggested solution and other information

CBS stopped working with a geo-verification proxy a couple of days ago (proxy removed from log, but it's working correctly with other sites). Issues does not appear to be OS-specific.

[remitamine]

most likely it a problem in the response from your proxy,

youtube-dl --geo-verification-proxy localhost:8080 cbs:E8aYmGjxuQ5HFdZTwL_6CIckRtxvkAS3
[CBS] E8aYmGjxuQ5HFdZTwL_6CIckRtxvkAS3: Downloading XML
[CBS] E8aYmGjxuQ5HFdZTwL_6CIckRtxvkAS3: Downloading StreamPack SMIL data
[CBS] E8aYmGjxuQ5HFdZTwL_6CIckRtxvkAS3: Downloading m3u8 information
WARNING: Failed to download m3u8 information: HTTP Error 403: Forbidden
[CBS] E8aYmGjxuQ5HFdZTwL_6CIckRtxvkAS3: Downloading RTMP SMIL data
[CBS] E8aYmGjxuQ5HFdZTwL_6CIckRtxvkAS3: Downloading JSON metadata
[download] Destination: The Late Late Show - 9_6_18 (Blake Griffin, Paul Feig, Demetri Martin)-E8aYmGjxuQ5HFdZTwL_6CIckRtxvkAS3.flv
[download]   1.0% of ~406.79MiB at 333.83KiB/s ETA 20:00