--prefer-insecure (--prefer-unsecure) doesn't work anymore since some time

[kokoko3k]

...It is not youtube, it is youtube-dl
Under Archlinux, if i install the version dated 2014.12.01 (or any of the followings, tried until 2014-12-06)
Youtube-dl returns always https links for (eg) the videoid P77q90n19dI
Rolling back to 2014.11.24 makes youtube-dl always return http urls.

[kokoko3k]

Rev 6253 works, 6254 does not
Seems the commit that broke the functionality is this:
4e62ebe

[jaimeMF]

I don't know if it's just for me, but trying to access any youtube url in a browser/curl redirects me to the https url:

$ curl 'www.youtube.com/watch?v=P77q90n19dI' -v
* Adding handle: conn: 0x7fc811803a00
* Adding handle: send: 0
* Adding handle: recv: 0
* Curl_addHandleToPipeline: length: 1
* - Conn 0 (0x7fc811803a00) send_pipe: 1, recv_pipe: 0
* About to connect() to www.youtube.com port 80 (#0)
*   Trying 173.194.45.166...
* Connected to www.youtube.com (173.194.45.166) port 80 (#0)
> GET /watch?v=P77q90n19dI HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.30.0
> Host: www.youtube.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
< Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 13:46:47 GMT
* Server gwiseguy/2.0 is not blacklisted
< Server: gwiseguy/2.0
< X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block; report=https://www.google.com/appserve/security-bugs/log/youtube
< P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=151657&hl=en for more info."
< Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P77q90n19dI
< Expires: Tue, 27 Apr 1971 19:44:06 EST
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
< Content-Length: 0
< Cache-Control: no-cache
< X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
< Alternate-Protocol: 80:quic,p=0.02
< Set-Cookie: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=TJKZQ4IdPB8; expires=Wed, 19-Aug-2015 01:39:47 GMT; path=/; domain=.youtube.com
< Set-Cookie: YSC=BgaG1DP8RZI; path=/; domain=.youtube.com; HttpOnly
<
* Connection #0 to host www.youtube.com left intact

We could use the old method if --prefer-unsecure is given, but I don't really like it.

If that's for playing the url with mplayer, it supports https in the svn head

[kokoko3k]

Yes it does redirect me too.
Still, the http links are available and working with youtube-dl < 2014-12-01