Error: EOF occurred in violation of protocol

[casperl]

Other YouTube videos download ok. Similar errors on older versions of youtube-dl. (Thanks for a fantastic piece of software!)

Version as of today:
casperl@zeus:~/new$ youtube-dl --version
2014.07.30

Error when dowloading ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqTum7zFtPY )

Output:

casperl@zeus:~/new$ youtube-dl --verbose -f 18 -o docu.when-youre-strange.mp4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqTum7zFtPY
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--verbose', '-f', '18', '-o', 'docu.when-youre-strange.mp4', 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqTum7zFtPY']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.07.30
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.5.0-51-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-12.10-quantal
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[youtube] Setting language
[youtube] XqTum7zFtPY: Downloading webpage
[youtube] XqTum7zFtPY: Downloading video info webpage
ERROR: unable to download video info webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:504: EOF occurred in violation of protocol>
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 203, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1231, in urlopen
return self._opener.open(req, timeout=self._socket_timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 401, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 419, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 379, in _call_chain
result = func(*args)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 598, in https_open
return self.do_open(HTTPSConnectionV3, req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1181, in do_open
raise URLError(err)

[phihag]

Works fine for me. Can you still reproduce it? In general, EOF errors are very unlikely to be caused by a problem in youtube-dl, and are usually caused by intermittent failure of the server in quesiton.

[casperl]

Thanks, yes it now works. Much appreciated. Problem closed.