vk.com request fails with ssl error

[LaPingvino]

➜  ~  sudo youtube-dl http://vk.com/video217359560_166642806\?hd\=1 --username=ikojba@gmail.com --verbose    

[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['http://vk.com/video217359560_166642806?hd=1', '--username=ikojba@gmail.com', '--verbose']
Type account password and press [Return]: 
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs UTF-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2014.08.05
[debug] Python version 2.7.8 - Linux-3.16.0-4-amd64-x86_64-with-debian-jessie-sid
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vk.com] Logging in as ikojba@gmail.com
ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error EOF occurred in violation of protocol (_ssl.c:581)>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py", line 203, in _request_webpage
    return self._downloader.urlopen(url_or_request)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/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 404, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/youtube_dl/utils.py", line 598, in https_open
    return self.do_open(HTTPSConnectionV3, req)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/urllib2.py", line 1169, in do_open
    raise URLError(err)

[clampak]

Please update your youtube-dl version.

[LaPingvino]

done that, it worked then (but only with sudo somehow...)

[jaimeMF]

Do you mean that you can only update with sudo or that the download only works with sudo?
sudo should only be used for updating, we highly recommend you to not use it for anything else.

[LaPingvino]

The download only worked with sudo, iirc...

[jaimeMF]

can you post the output you get when run with the --verbose option as a normal user?

[LaPingvino]

Never mind, in the current latest version it works fine also without sudo.