ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:504: EOF occurred in violation of protocol>

[antdude]

youtube-dl can't download this secured Vimeo video:

$ youtube-dl https://vimeo.com/104729467
[vimeo] 104729467: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [Errno 8] _ssl.c:504: EOF occurred in violation of protocol>

$ youtube-dl http://vimeo.com/104729467
[vimeo] 104729467: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 104729467: Extracting information
[vimeo] 104729467: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: Clara Plath - Dancing Song-104729467.mp4
[download] 100% of 77.37MiB in 00:41
ant@ANTian:~/Downloads$ youtube-dl -v https://vimeo.com/104729467
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['-v', 'https://vimeo.com/104729467']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.09.10.1
[debug] Python version 2.7.3 - Linux-3.2.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-7.6
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo] 104729467: Downloading webpage
ERROR: Unable to download 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 211, in _request_webpage
return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl/youtube_dl/YoutubeDL.py", line 1244, 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 626, in https_open
return self.do_open(HTTPSConnectionV3, req)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1181, in do_open
raise URLError(err)

No problems with YouTube's secured URLs. Thank you in advance. :)

[phihag]

Thank you for the report. I believe this to be fixed in youtube-dl 2014.09.12. Type sudo youtube-dl -U to update.

[antdude]

Thanks. It is indeed fixed and working now. :)