REQUEST IN HTTPS BECAUSE YOU CAN

[punuparcel4net]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2019.02.08
• At least skimmed through the README, most notably the FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Site support request (request for adding support for a new site)
• Feature request (request for a new functionality)
• Question
• Other

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Description

Letting your application talk in HTTP in 2019 is absurd enough to be a bug.
Just a single extra letter “s” makes you secure. Why the hell not?

https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/blob/91effe22a091035bc5abace2fcf562a0db89090f/youtube_dl/extractor/pornhub.py#L169-L173

And this'll make @denotexist (#12722) happy, since they don't block HTTPS requests.

DO NOT IGNORE THIS ISSUE.

[dstftw]

Does not make much difference since it's redirected to https version anyway.
Also nothing to do with #12722.

[alexvong1995]

@dstftw

Will patch to change to use HTTPS where possible be accepted? I've done similar
things in other project:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=98b90194d388b24fc1c0397dbc1b447e1e1ebd2d

IMO, we shouldn't depend on the site doing the right thing, as some may still
not have redirection enabled.

[punuparcel4net]

@dstftw

Does not make much difference since it's redirected to https version anyway.
Also nothing to do with #12722.

Yeah, thanks for the expected answer from you.
Don't you see #12722 happens because HTTP packets are visible?
Every HTTP packets to PornHub is blocked in the ISP level.

Are you seriously saying you don't give a fuck to your application's security, just because in your country it works no matter what?

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@dstftw commented on Apr 16, 2017

Looks like pornhub is blocked by some Korean authorities:

And closing the issue tagging as invalid.

You did see what the problem was and you tagged it as invalid? What the hell was that?