|  | @@ -53,13 +53,14 @@ class VKBaseIE(InfoExtractor):
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				|  |  |          # We will workaround this VK issue by resetting the remixlhk cookie to
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				|  |  |          # the first one manually.
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				|  |  |          cookies = url_handle.headers.get('Set-Cookie')
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				|  |  | -        if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
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				|  |  | -            cookies = cookies.encode('iso-8859-1')
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				|  |  | -        cookies = cookies.decode('utf-8')
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				|  |  | -        remixlhk = re.search(r'remixlhk=(.+?);.*?\bdomain=(.+?)(?:[,;]|$)', cookies)
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				|  |  | -        if remixlhk:
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				|  |  | -            value, domain = remixlhk.groups()
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				|  |  | -            self._set_cookie(domain, 'remixlhk', value)
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				|  |  | +        if cookies:
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				|  |  | +            if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
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				|  |  | +                cookies = cookies.encode('iso-8859-1')
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				|  |  | +            cookies = cookies.decode('utf-8')
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				|  |  | +            remixlhk = re.search(r'remixlhk=(.+?);.*?\bdomain=(.+?)(?:[,;]|$)', cookies)
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				|  |  | +            if remixlhk:
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				|  |  | +                value, domain = remixlhk.groups()
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				|  |  | +                self._set_cookie(domain, 'remixlhk', value)
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				|  |  |          login_page = self._download_webpage(
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				|  |  |              'https://login.vk.com/?act=login', None,
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