Download from voxnow fails if two // between hostname and path

[jmayer]

The following URL fails:

~/media/Video> youtube-dl --verbose "http://www.voxnow.de//der-vip-hundeprofi/mit-m-brzeska-s-mross-und-h-meiser.php?container_id=146301&player=1&season=4"
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', 'http://www.voxnow.de//der-vip-hundeprofi/mit-m-brzeska-s-mross-und-h-meiser.php?container_id=146301&player=1&season=4']
[debug] youtube-dl version 2013.12.09.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.5 - Linux-3.12.3-1.gf37dca6-desktop-i686-with-SuSE-13.1-i586
[debug] Proxy map: {}
WARNING: Falling back on generic information extractor.
[generic] mit-m-brzeska-s-mross-und-h-meiser.php?container_id=146301&player=1&season=4: Downloading webpage
[generic] mit-m-brzeska-s-mross-und-h-meiser.php?container_id=146301&player=1&season=4: Extracting information
ERROR: Unsupported URL: http://www.voxnow.de//der-vip-hundeprofi/mit-m-brzeska-s-mross-und-h-meiser.php?container_id=146301&player=1&season=4; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 470, in extract_info
ie_result = ie.extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 134, in extract
return self._real_extract(url)
File "/usr/local/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/generic.py", line 254, in _real_extract
raise ExtractorError(u'Unsupported URL: %s' % url)
ExtractorError: Unsupported URL: http://www.voxnow.de//der-vip-hundeprofi/mit-m-brzeska-s-mross-und-h-meiser.php?container_id=146301&player=1&season=4; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output. Make sure you are using the latest version; type youtube-dl -U to update.

but if I use
~/media/Video> youtube-dl --verbose "http://www.voxnow.de/der-vip-hundeprofi/mit-m-brzeska-s-mross-und-h-meiser.php?container_id=146301&player=1&season=4"

instead, downloading works. Of course the path with the two // is provided by the webpage.

[phihag]

Thanks for the report. This has been fixed in youtube-dl 2013.12.09.3 and newer. Type sudo youtube-dl -U to update.