Get video file from Vimeo over https if it the video URL starts with https

[lfl2]

When downloading from Vimeo.com, even if you provide video URL that starts with https, the video is downloaded over http. The right choice is to download the video URL over https.

[jaimeMF]

It sems that they are downloaded over https:

youtube-dl --ignore-config --verbose 'http://vimeo.com/56015672'
[debug] System config: []
[debug] User config: []
[debug] Command-line args: ['--ignore-config', '--verbose', 'http://vimeo.com/56015672']
[debug] Encodings: locale UTF-8, fs utf-8, out UTF-8, pref UTF-8
[debug] youtube-dl version 2015.03.03.1
[debug] Git HEAD: 3c6f245
[debug] Python version 3.4.3 - Darwin-13.4.0-x86_64-i386-64bit
[debug] exe versions: avconv 11.2, avprobe 11.2, ffmpeg 2.5.4, ffprobe 2.5.4, rtmpdump 2.4
[debug] Proxy map: {}
[vimeo] 56015672: Downloading webpage
[vimeo] 56015672: Extracting information
[vimeo] 56015672: Downloading webpage
[debug] Invoking downloader on 'https://avvimeo-a.akamaihd.net/<...>'
[download] youtube-dl test video - ★ ' ' 幸 _ _ ä ↭ 𝕐-56015672.mp4 has already been downloaded
[download] 100% of 601.62KiB

Could you post the url with the problem and the output of youtube-dl --verbose URL?

[lfl2]

Check this:

youtube-dl -g --ignore-config --verbose 'https://player.vimeo.com/video/56015672'

It outputs something like this:
http://av.vimeo.com/.../aaa.mp4?token2=ttt&aksessionid=sss
In general, it reminds that youtube-dl does not make a normalized version of URL before downloading. In youtube.com, there is/was also the same issue. It usually differs if you use youtube.com/watch?v=iii, youtu.be/iii, or youtube.com/embed/iii

[jaimeMF]

Thanks for the report, it will use https in the next version.