For instance, if we give it <www.xvideos.com/video1384059>, we would end up passing that to urllib2, which would complain about an unknown URL type.
@@ -3413,7 +3413,7 @@ class XVideosIE(InfoExtractor):
self.report_webpage(video_id)
- request = urllib2.Request(url)
+ request = urllib2.Request(r'http://www.xvideos.com/video' + video_id)
try:
webpage = urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
except (urllib2.URLError, httplib.HTTPException, socket.error), err: